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Newbie Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 5

So I just got Cmud and am having an issue with a difference between Zmud and Cmud. In Zmud I could create an alias such as bs which would execute backstab, and then I could use it in the following way. I would type bs orc and it would backstab orc, but in Cmud when I do the same alias bs for backstab and try to do bs orc it just executes backstab and not backstab orc. Help please.

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

you have options.

1)aliases in cmud can now have named parameters. These are temporary variables (ie, $target) that you can then immediately use in your alias code:

#alias bs($target) {backstab $target}

2)use the %1...%99 variables. In the case of aliases, each word attached to the alias command counts as one %1...%99 variable, like so:

bs the big ugly orc
alias = bs
%1 = the
%2 = big
%3 = ugly
%4 = orc

You can also refer to "phrases" consisting the argument position () and every word after that:

%-1 = the big ugly orc
%-2 = big ugly orc
%-3 = ugly orc
%-4 = orc

Using these in the alias works the same as the temporary variables shown in #1, except that you don't need to define them in the #ALIAS command syntax. This works in ZMud, too.

3)In the Package Editor, when looking at the More Info panel for the alias you should see two checkboxes on the right edge of the panel. One says Auto Append, the other says Parse Arguments. To do what you were doing in ZMud, I believe you need at least the Auto Append one checked if not both of them.

Magician Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 364 Location: USA

Yeah, auto-append is the one that was added for zmud-like functionality.

Newbie Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 5

Thank you guys very much, this is a great help.