Zugg Software :: View topic - noob user w/ trial version, cant get some typed commands to work

Newbie Joined: 27 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

a certain mud i'm going to requires me to type "." and ":" at the beginning of a line, but it's doing something weird. the : is the equivalent of /me

ie:
:goes to the bathroom
NuVanDibe goes to the bathroom

the "." at the beginning of the line is for giving commands to editors regarding character description.
ie:
.end (ends the editing session)

but it doesnt let me use these commands properly. they work fine in other mud clients.

Newbie Joined: 27 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

Try checking:

prefs -> scripting -> special characters

for "." and ":" and disable them

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

. -- this is the special character governing speedwalks; for example, .2n3ehjlk or .hometobank (a named speedwalk path)

: -- this is the special character for sending text and commands to other windows (windowname:#clr or :windowname:this sentence appears in a different window named windowname)

They are useful on their own, so I'm not sure that you'd want to disable them as opposed to finding another character to use as a substitute. If you go with a substitute, keep in mind that these special character changes only apply to the command line and that there's absolutely no way to change the special-character behavior when used in a script (trigger, alias, button, macro, etc).

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:25 am

Apprentice Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 190

well, id disagree... unless nuvandib goes to the the bathroom or exits edit mode every 5 seconds theres handy button 'disable parsing' for sending obscure commands like that, it even has(d) keybrd shortcut but i forgot it
Razz

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:59 pm

Actually, the smart command line in CMUD should work fine for this. I just typed:

:goes to the bathroom

and it got sent to the MUD just fine. CMUD doesn't treat : as a special character unless the word following it is a valid window name in CMUD. Same with using the . character. As long as the word after the . isn't a valid path name, then the command line in CMUD will send it to the MUD just fine. Again, I just typed:

.end

and it sent that to the MUD just fine. So you shouldn't need to change your special characters for this to work. Make sure you are using the latest 2.37 version of CMUD. I don't know why it wouldn't work on your system when it works fine here.

Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:07 am

You need to beware using .end when you're not connected to a MUD, I guess because EnglishDirections isn't loaded. With an actual session, e, n and d are directions, so .end is a valid path and is sent as e;n;d. But the :goes one worked fine.

Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:55 pm

Fang: Oh, yeah, that's very true Embarassed

I forgot that the English Directions wasn't loaded. And yes, any word that looks like a valid set of directions (like "end" or "news") will send directions and not the command name. As you mentioned, they will need to use the Ctrl-R key to toggle the command line parsing off in order to send ".end".