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Wanderer Joined: 19 Apr 2001 Posts: 59 Location: USA

Hmm I didn't know how to label the title of this question, so if you got here, thanks.

I want to either force special charactors through the program, or make a macro that enters the "~" char before.

OK what I'm trying to do. I am in the process of building a zone, and when implimenting colors, I have to enter "<r>" for dark red or "<W>" for bright white and "~" to terminate data entry.

so when I try to enter "A <r>red snake<1>.~" it obviously comes out wrong.

I am aware that I could type in "A ~<r~>red snake~<1~>.~~" but that becomes a bit of a pain when entering a lot of text, and if I forget one bit, it can mean typing in a lot of stuff over again.

So, can I ignore the special chars, and send them through, just like telnet? or can I make a macro.

I tried making a macro "CTRL-R" to enter "~<r~>", but I cannot make a macro with the "r" key ?!

So, congratulations if you read all the post, and thankyou for your time, and thanks in advance for any help.

Regards
Marts

GURU Joined: 28 Sep 2000 Posts: 434 Location: USA

As long as you are aware that this could potentially mess up any existing scripts you may have, you could simply uncheck 'Alow < > for expansion..' (or something similar to that) in the preferences, and change the quote character from a tilde (~) to something else (a backslash, for example).

That would allow you to enter the command just like you'd want to.
A <r>red snake<1>.~

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

There's a computer icon next to the command line. If you click on it, it will turn off parsing. Click on it again to turn parsing back on.

Wanderer Joined: 19 Apr 2001 Posts: 59 Location: USA

Excelent, I think I will probably go for the switch off parsing option, thanks for the help guys.

Marts

GURU Joined: 28 Sep 2000 Posts: 434 Location: USA

Doh, forgot about those :p

It's been awhile, okay? [:I]