Zugg Software :: View topic - Want to catch semicolons and change them to apostrophes

Wanderer Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Posts: 76 Location: USA

Ok, I have this HORRIBLE typo problem, I hit ; when I mean to hit ' all the time, for years and years.

I'm wondering if there is a way to have the script do something like this:

Alias: Chat, replace ; with '

IE. "This is a chat message, do NOT use the semicolon, replace with with a apostrophe."

Yes, I know I can change the seperator character in "Special Characters", but that breaks hundreds of aliases and triggers, and the mud still uses semicolons as return codes.

Any useful suggestions would be VERY appreciated, thank you.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 167 Location: aztx

This might work, try it?
#ONINPUT {;} {'}

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

We went over this two weeks ago, the consensus was that it's not possible. No need to start a second thread for it...

Wanderer Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Posts: 76 Location: USA

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 167 Location: aztx

Okay, I'm assuming you use the apostrophe to 'say' or something like that
So you would type something like this: 'greetings
in that case, this should work, unless there's something I missed:

#ONINPUT {;(*)} {'%1} "OMGITWORKS"

Wanderer Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Posts: 76 Location: USA

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 167 Location: aztx

Try this.
It does not affect copy/paste but when you press ; (semicolon) an ' (apostrophe) will show up.
You can also turn it off, if you need to etc.

#KEY ; {'} "OMGITWORKS" {append|nosend}

Let me know if it works for you!

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:11 am

Wow, that actually does work. Good job on that, Scirkhan.

However, now it poses a problem since he won't be able to command stack on the command line anymore... Hmmm.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 167 Location: aztx

Thanks.
Yeah, I was thinking that maybe s/he can use aliases for command stacking, or switch the apostrophe and semicolon.