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Newbie Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Posts: 1

I play on a mud that uses special characters with the emote command, http://www.armageddon.org/cgi-bin/help_index/show_help?emote
http://www.armageddon.org/cgi-bin/help_index/show_help?emote_examples
look at those links for examples. What I would like to know is whether or not there is any way I could toggle zmuds use of the special characters on the fly as I input things to the mud, without having to change my preferences or click the icons in the lower right. For example I’d like to do something like this: chartog emote looks down at ~red, and smiles at !red. The idea would be to make zmud ignore the special characters for that input. Anyone know how I can do this?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

You could use and emote alias with the #DEFAULT and #NODEF commands. You may still have a problem with the tilde (~).

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 9:45 pm

I've been having a similar problem. I have a zmud alias to load my mud based aliases. Unfortunately the mud also uses % as the parameter character. Therefore for my aliases to be entered correctly i must disable the parameter char on zmud then reenable it afterwards. I tried switching the an alternative character, but this hinders some of the functions of the map (e.g. door opening).

I tried using the #default and #nodef commands as you suggested, but they do not seem to be having any effect. Do you have any idea what it is I am doing wrong?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Even better solution is to put you whole command in quotes.
Example for for Werd: "emote looks down at ~red, and smiles at !red"
This works in the command line and aliases.

Novice Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Netherlands

A workaround would maybe be to try and do a replace on the chars to have them be replaced by the char with a tilde before it? %replace(%1, "!","~!") something along those lines..
perhaps:
#ALIAS {emote} {
#VAR emoteString %1
%replace(@emoteString, "~","~~")
%replace(@emoteString, "!","~!")
chartog emote @emotestring}

I'm not sure if this would work but I use something similair to replace " with ' in a string. I do think you need to do the tilde as first char to be replaced or the the code will replace all the tildes it places befor the others.

Timbo