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Novice Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40

my command separator is broken. i checked in options, and the separator char (;) is enabled. is there another place i could check?

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:24 pm

What isn't it working in? The command line? Scripts? Everything?

Novice Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40

command line

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Did you disable parsing? Can you show us the exact commands you're trying to execute? Is this a fresh installation or an upgrade?

Apprentice Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 108

I have seen that if i do something like this:
get all corpse ; sac corpse at the command line it does not work,
but if I do
get all corpse;sac corpse
w/o spaces then it works fine. Is this what you are seeing kymon?

Novice Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40

that's exactly it! "say hi;say ho" works, "say hi; say ho" doesn't.

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:58 pm

so just the one with the space doesnt work? er.. take out the space?

Apprentice Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 190 Location: Canada

I /think/ the ;<space> syntax is intentional, so that in writing sentences which use semicolons, the command-line parser doesn't split your sentence up into multiple commands. I always put stacked commands immediately following the semicolon.

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:22 pm

Yeah, that's exactly right Thinjon.

Novice Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40

sounds sensible :)
i just didn't pay attention to the space when i first tried, iirc it worked in zmud even with the space, so cmud has a different behaviour.

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:31 pm

Spaces are not allowed around the ; character. If you put spaces around it, then the "smart command line" thinks you are sending english text to the MUD instead of trying to use multiple commands.

This change from zMUD allows you to use the ; characters on MUDs that need it and in normal chats. This is a *fix* from the zMUD behavior.