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Beginner Joined: 11 Oct 2001 Posts: 12 Location: USA

I'm trying to figure out a way of setting a
default for aliases... this might be really
easy and I'm just braindead right now, but
here is the setup.

I have a zmud alias 'sh' for cast blood shield %1

What I would like to be able to do is set it
up so that if I type 'sh vraurk' then I do 'cast blood shield vraurk' but if I simply do 'sh' then I do 'cast blood shield me'

There is a mud setup that allows me to do this, but I like having most of my aliases
in zmud for one reason or another. The setup works like this:

alias sh cast blood shield $arg:me$

'me' is an auto-nickname for my user name on my mud.

Any help with this will definitely be appreciated.... thanks in advance.

Poon
ZMud 6.16
Win95

Beginner Joined: 22 Nov 2001 Posts: 18 Location: USA

If you cast blood shield undefined, does your mud send an error back to you?

Most muds I have been to, an undefined cast reflects upon the caster.

So you put
#alias {sh}{cast 'blood shield'}

Syntax: sh
Result: You cast blood shield on yourself.

Syntax: sh vraurk
Result: You cast blood shield on vraurk.

-J

The system doesn't really work, it can't be fixed,
no one understands it, no one is in charge of it,
it can't be lived without, and it gets worse every year.
- Stewart Brand

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

If your mud does require a target for the spell, use this:

#ALIAS sh {cast blood shield %if( %null(%1), me, %1)}

Troubadour

Beginner Joined: 11 Oct 2001 Posts: 12 Location: USA

Okay.... I feel incredibly stupid.

However, that still doesn't help me with
other aliases, such as attack commands.

I also have an alias for my 'hurl' attack
command:

alias h hurl $arg:him$

where I have him nicknamed as 'monster'
or if I am hunting a player, I nickname him
as the player's name.

Thanks again, in advance!

Poon.

Beginner Joined: 11 Oct 2001 Posts: 12 Location: USA

Thanks a ton, Troubadour, that worked great!

Poon