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Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 6

I, about a year ago, had an alias that would set the text color of all capital letters to one color, all lower case letters to another, and all symboles (!,@,#,$, etc...) with another.

Does anyone have this alias or remember it? I reformatted and lost it.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could repost it for me.

Thanks.

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:14 am

Well, this depends on what you mean. Because you're saying alias and not trigger, I assume you mean colouring text that you send to the MUD and not text you receive from the MUD. If that's the case, we need to know the syntax that your MUD uses for colouring text. In addition, I'm guessing you don't want to colour ALL text that you send, since some stuff will just be commands like "look", so when exactly do you want this to be used?

Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 6

It was basically used for OOC, CHAT, and SAY, so that the words "spoken" by my character would be sent pre-colored so I didn't have to type all the &C, &P, &G, etc... before every letter. So yes, it was only text sent to the mud. It is runs a modified EOSII code with ANSI text color (I hope that answers the syntax question) and again, it is used only to color words spoken by my character.

Thanks

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

I have an alias similar to this, but I was never so rude to other players that it colorized so many different colors in every chat :P

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:42 pm

Stealing part ralgith's code, the code you're looking for will be something like this:

#alias color {%1 %subregex(%subregex(%subregex(%-2,"([A-Z])","%concat(~"&C~",%1)"),"([a-z])","%concat(~"&N~",%1)"),"([^A-Za-z])","%concat(~"&S~",%1)")}

where &C is the colour for caps, &N is the colour for non-caps, and &S is the colour for symbols. I've never used nested %subregexes, so I'm not sure how the %nn parameters work, but I think this is it.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

I actually faked mine there, I have multiple aliases that are the first 2 or 3 letters of each channel for less keystrokes on the command line ;)