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Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 101 Location: USA

I was trying to make an alias called nowimp

the commands the alias excecute are
wimpy off
set prompt $HIR$$HE $X>

the set prompt should just pass through directly to the mud, but it crashes the client when I try to use it.

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:47 am

I think your problem is the fact your using $, I think somewhere around here it was mentioned that $ is for... local variables? if that is so that could be causing your problem? it might be possible to escape it, ~$ should get it to send to the mud as is I do believe, not sure. Hope this helps a bit?

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 101 Location: USA

I hope so too, because $HE is how your set your prompt in the mud I'm on.

Also, I've had some problems with another expression I used to use.

My Room (n, w, e, and s) is the room name. Now the directions can be jumbled to whatever combination.

In zmud, I could use #TRIG {My Room $\T+, \T+, \T+ and \T+$} to capture it and do a standard subsitution.

Right now it doesn't seem \T+ works, is there an subsitution for that variable?

Thanks

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

Also, you could try putting stuff you want sent to the MUD verbatim in double quotation marks, "like this".

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:40 pm

Seb is correct. If you want something sent to the MUD that contains special characters, like $, %, @, #, etc, you either need to enclose the entire command in double-quotes, or use the new line-escape ` character at the beginning of the line. I prefer the ` key myself. So your alias commands would look like this:

wimpy off
`set prompt $HIR$$HE $X>

or, you can do this:

wimpy off
set prompt "$HIR$$HE $X>"

and the quotes will be stripped before sending it to the MUD.

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

Quick question of a too-late nature: how come you didn't set the line-escape character the same as the quote character (which we had to use to send commands that matched alias names)? Both appear to provide the same function, just on different scopes

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 101 Location: USA

ok the quotes worked to fix that problem...

Thanks

Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:34 pm

Because the quote character ~ only quotes the next character. The ` character quotes the entire line.

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

Wouldn't that be for the smart parser to decide? Oh, wait, I think I see now. I guess it's the one case where you only want to quote the character and that character happens to be at the beginning of the line? Something like ~! @friend?

Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:25 am

Correct.