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Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 30 Location: Italy

in my mud some commands needs complete words for directions.
if i send to mud "throw weapon e mob" the command can be bad interpreted, so i must send "throw weapon eAST mob", if i send "open door e" is the same thing and i must send "open door east".
how i can write in the command line only "e" and send to the mud "east" in commands with more words like throw and open?
it's the same thing with all other directions...

how can i create aliases or triggers that expands one-letter directions in complete directions?
thanks in advance

omaek193

Wanderer Joined: 13 Nov 2002 Posts: 88 Location: USA

while im sure a guru will reply and tell you what you want to know... the easiest way to do this strikes me as making something like this

#AL {twe} {throw weapon east %1}
#AL {oe} {open door east}

but this is how us little guys get around in zmud.

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 30 Location: Italy

thankz brujah, easiest way is always the best way Smile

by the way, i wondered if there's a solution to do the "e=east, n=north, ecc.." first, because the real matter is for me write one letter that expands in the complete word in a group of words.

omaek193

Newbie Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Canada

Well... simply enough, you can do it the same way.

Make an alias for "e" and have it take the value of "east"

So

#AL {e} {east}

When you hit e, and only e by itself.

Like #7 e, it will transform into 7 "east"s

Or, for instance...

"throw weapon e mob"
will turn into "throw weapon east mob"]

You can use that #AL from above and replace n for north, w for west, s for south, and they will follow the same format.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Well, aliases are expanded only at the start of a line, so using them for substitution wouldn't work. You can also use TAB completion. For example, if you add "east" to the TAB completion list with a command like:
#TAB east

you can then write an e, hit TAB and zMUD will fill in the rest of the word.

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 30 Location: Italy

so probably Kjata offers me the best solution i can apply when i don't want to use aliases/triggers.
thank you all Very Happy

omaek193

Wanderer Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 64

the input trigger could also be of some use, u could use '* ({E|W|N|S}) *' as the input trigger.. and then use case to find out which dir was used, and then expand it properly. Only problem would be if you ended a line with one of those, then the trigger would not fire.

Zex0s