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Wanderer Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 74 Location: USA

#ALIAS look {#say test;#send look %1}

Using the above, when I type "look w", the "#say test" part works, but the "#send look %1" part doesn't. I just get a blank line in the mud and have to hit enter again to get my prompt back.

If I use #ALIAS look (%w) {#say test;#send look %1} its as if the alias never even worked at all and the command was sent normal to the mud. Ie: I get no #say test command sent.

Any ideas? Am I missing something really simple?

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2002 4:40 pm

The second one definitely won't work, and I'm not sure how you might have come up with that syntax.

The first one is close. Take out the #send part and just have look %1.

#send is for sending a text file to the mud one line at a time. In your case you are trying to send the contents of 'look' to the mud with each line prefixed with %1. No file 'look' means a blank line, I guess.

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GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Actually, if #SEND doesn't receive a valid filename as an argument, it just sends its argument as if you had typed it into the command line, but without echoing it.

SpiritWolf, your alias should be:
#ALIAS look {#SAY test;#SEND {look %1}}

Kjata

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#ONINPUT {^look (*)$} {#SAY TEST;look %1}

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2002 6:10 pm

Well, there's my 'learned something new today' item. Although, I can't think of a reason for using #SEND that way. Can you?

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MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

This one will not only look west, it will also look in bag.
#AL look {#SAY test;~look}

LightBulb
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Wanderer Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 74 Location: USA

the second one I was just messin around trying to figure things out.

The reason to use #send is in an alias just like I have. The alias name is also the same as the command on the mud I'm trying to perform, so it would make a loop.
Both LightBulb's and Kjata's work fine though. Thanks for the help! :)

Adept Joined: 09 Nov 2000 Posts: 222 Location: USA

quote:

the second one I was just messin around trying to figure things out.

The reason to use #send is in an alias just like I have. The alias name is also the same as the command on the mud I'm trying to perform, so it would make a loop.
Both LightBulb's and Kjata's work fine though. Thanks for the help! :)

You don't need to use #send to prevent it from looping, just use the ~ in front of the word...

So, if you have an alias for look, you can use ~look in the alias without looping....

quote:

Well, there's my 'learned something new today' item. Although, I can't think of a reason for using #SEND that way. Can you?

Yes, I use it on my mud for a script to practice certain fighting techniques... to concentrate on a certain attack, you type the attack name after each attack... it becomes VERY spammy on the screen, so I use #send @attack to send it to the mud without echoing it....

I also gag the blank lines, prompts and enemy condition, so instead of around 10 lines per round, I've got 1 or 2....

Wanderer Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 76 Location: Tuvalu

Someone explain how the ~tilde works? I know it quotes characters... how's it keep from looping?

-Shibbidy Joe
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MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

It tells zMUD not to parse the next character. If it's not parsed, it can't be interpreted as an alias.

LightBulb
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Wanderer Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 76 Location: Tuvalu

Got it. Much thanks. Lightbulb... if you could IM me at Shibbidy Joe, I'd be much obliged. I still can't get this #wait thing to work. (Sorry for this off topic post. I'm in a state of perpetual anxiety about this script.)

-Shibbidy Joe