Zugg Software :: View topic - using zmud as a text editor, EX: notepad, wordpad

Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 173

I've heard that you could force zmud to react to text files as though they were received from a mud, but could someone explain to me how I might be able to do this?

I would like to use the #TRIGGER options to do more extensive find/replace operations on text documents.
Also when you open zmud you usually need to specify which mud you would like to open.
If it is possible I would like to be able to click on a text document, and automatically open it in zmud and begin using these capabilities.
If someone has a plugin that does these things, it would be very helpful.
If someone has insite into using the offline capabilities of zmud, this too would be helpful.

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

Why would you want to use zMUD as a Text Editor? There are certainly better options available for download!

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:28 am

You can use the %read function to access the contents of a file, and then use #say to make them appear on the screen, firing triggers. But like Seb says, there are much better programs for this. Many of them have regex-based find and replace which can be very powerful indeed.

Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 173

thanks, I think that will work.