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Beginner Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

How do I highlight names so I can immediately distinguish them from other text in CMUD? Is there an easy way to do this and if so, how?

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

#TRIGGER {@names} {#CW yellow}

Where names is a string list (names = Zugg|Guinn|Apocalyptic)

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:37 pm

I'm pretty sure you need to use

#trig {{@names}} {#cw yellow}

because {one|two} is the syntax for multiple patterns, and @names, if it's a stringlist, expands to one|two. Also, if you have "Guy" on your list and someone's name is "Guybrush", it'll highlight part of their name. To avoid that, you can use %q as well, to get:

#trig {%q{@names}%q} {#cw yellow}

More info on %q is in the comments of this help article.

Beginner Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

How and where do I make a string list?

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:30 pm

#var names ""
#additem names whatever
#additem names whatever2

Repeat #additem as many times as you like.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:55 am

You can also usually get away with a direct assignment of a list like this:

names = {Zugg|Guinn|Apocalyptic}

works fine to initialize a list unless you need to have the "|" or quote characters in one of the items. If you need that, then you need to use the #ADDITEM command as Fang mentioned.

Or, open up the Settings Editor, select New/Variable, then select StringList from the "Type" dropdown box in the advanced properties at the bottom of the screen (click the "More" button if the properties are not visible). This will display a string list editor that allows you to easy enter your string list interactively, or edit an existing string list variable.

Beginner Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

Do I enter several names in the first row, or do I enter one name per row? How do I choose what colors I highlight them with? How do I type in a command or hit a key to bring up which of them is online and which are not?

Beginner Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:53 am

If you get some kind of list output separated by spaces, you could use

#forall %replace(%1," ","|") {#additem names %i}

to add them quickly. You choose the colour by changing the word "yellow" in the trigger above. It can be any websafe colour name, or a hex sequence "#RRGGBB" (the quotes are required).

In the Package Editor, you add one name per row. Each row represents an item in the string list.

I'm not sure what you mean by "How do I type in a command or hit a key to bring up which of them is online and which are not?". All you've asked for is a way of highlighting names (or, indeed, any word) that appears on the screen. That's a totally separate problem, and you'll need to explain it in more detail.

Beginner Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

How do I fix it when using Alex highlighted it highlights the Alex portion of Alexandrian? How do I make it intelligent enough to differentiate? I did not understand fully the directions to do this earlier.

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:36 am

The pattern %qAlex%q matches "Alex" but neither "Alexandrian" nor "NotAlex". Just add %q before and after the {@names} part of the pattern to have it only match on those names.

%q matches a word-boundary. This isn't a character - its character width is zero (a normal character's width is 1). It matches the transition point between something that's a word (a-zA-Z0-9) and something that's not a word (a space, a full stop, the start or end of the string, etc). For example, if the parser is checking the string "Alexandrian" against the pattern %qAlex%q, it'll match Alex fine - the parser's position is now on the x. It'll look ahead and see that the next character is an "a". Both the current character, the x, and the next character, the a, are word characters. To match %q, one must be a word character and one must not, and so this doesn't match %q and the match fails.

If that's all a bit complicated, just accept that it works and move on :P

Beginner Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

The %q works, but when I use it for another string associate with another trigger it does not work like it does beautifully on the other one. Why is that? How can I fix it?

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:52 am

Without seeing the pattern you're trying to use it in and a few examples of the text you intend it to match, my answer is unfortunately "with great difficulty".

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Is the other one a regex trigger? If so then %q wouldn't work, I think it might be \b instead