Zugg Software :: View topic - [2.13] Using the :window: messes with the !

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Ok, on the mud I play 'quit' was replaced with 'quit!'
If I am on one window, and I do this :win2:quit! the output to win2 is 'quit !'
It should NOT be adding a space between the word and the exclamation point.
I would guess that this is also in 2.14, can someone test? I FUBARed my 2.14a earlier :) and I'm not going to reinstall tonight.

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:01 am

The ! character is a special character used for command history recall. As with *any* special character in CMUD, you need to put " quotes around the command to send it to the MUD verbatim. I might be able to fix it so that the ! is ignored if it's not the first character in the command, but this is a general issue that applies to a lot of different special characters and you need to get used to quoting special characters in CMUD because the compiler is much more sensitive to correct syntax compared to zMUD.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Gotcha. I was just confused why it would only do it when sending commands to a non-active window (hence why I consider it a bug). It works fine in the active window.

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:24 pm

The active window is using a "smart" command line feature. It scans your command to see if it looks like a proper script and if it sees the ! character not at the beginning of the line then it sends the text to the MUD verbatim without parsing it as a script. But when using the window: syntax, this is going through the full zScript compiler and parser (because it's a script), and that is pickier about the syntax.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Ok, that makes sense.