Commands are Tedious you Say?
Release v1.1.0
Minecraft 1.11.2 - Tested on spongeforge-1.11.2-2282-6.1.0-BETA-2370
Changes:
- Completely refactored method of replacing placeholders, props to pie_flavor for devising the original method!
 - Players with the 
sayitem.chatpermission will now have all of their chat messages automatically parsed for item placeholders! - Introduced Indexed Placeholders 
[item]will still reference the item currently in the player’s hand, however[item1]will reference the 1st item slot in the player’s hotbar (if an item is present),[item2]will reference the second slot and so on. In this way, you can reference multiple items in the same message! - Added 
-jflag andsayitem.command.flag.say.jpermission to/sayitemcommand. The-jflag allows you to specify item placeholders in concise JSON format, in this way you can display items that are not even in your inventory, or even have non-player entities like command blocks display items!- Ex: 
/sayitem -j Anyone want [{"ContentVersion":1,"Count":1,"ItemType":"minecraft:potion","UnsafeDamage":0,"UnsafeData":{"Potion":"minecraft:weakness"}}]?will displayAnyone want [potion]?in chat with[potion]displaying a potion of weakness on hover. - Don’t know how to generate the concise JSON format for an item? Check out one of my other plugins SerializeMe 😄
 
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Enjoy!