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Originally Posted by gm9

Yes, what Zonx said is what I tried to express with my first answer to you, but the example Calain80 posted will still work because the %t variable is interpreted as part of the command when it is assigned to the alias, which in the end is all that matters to you, I suppose.

so then this

You can use alias <command_name>:<command> to temporary set a command.

I.e. alias assist_tank:assist %t
%t will be replaced with the name of your target at the time of the alias command.

Now you can use assist_tank to assist your tank no matter who you have targeted or changing a macro by hand.

will not work as intended... at least how I interpret his intention... The way I read that is like this....
target player A
use the alias command assist_tank:assist %t
You will now be assisting player A...

new encounter starts
target player B
use the /assist_tank (thinking that it will assist player A)
I still will be targetting player B not player A.

The way I interpretted the original was that you can alias assist_tank:assist %t once, then any time during that session when you do assist_tank it will target player A again regardless of who you happen to be targetting. However, it would seem that assist_tank merely re-invokes /assist %t and assists your current target and it doesnt actually store or set or remember player A at all during this process.