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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

my MUD has various dot commands for its text editor, .h, .s, etc... but some of these seem bound to something else. How can I unbind them to work properly with my editor?

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

The . is used on the command line for sending speedwalk paths.
If you aren't trying to send aliases or scripts to the mud then you could turn off parsing for the editor.
To do that just press ctrl+r when the editor window is in the front. That or click on the little computer icon at the top right of the editor window.

Adept Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 250 Location: Austin, TX

And then press Ctrl-R again, when you're done, to turn parsing back on.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Ah, thank you.

Novice Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 36

Also, Under PREFS
Then Click on 'Scripting'
and then Click on the tab Special Characters
you can uncheck the '.' so it wont use it..
or at least shouldnt use it.. I've not tested it.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Yes, if you don't intend to use paths within cmud, turning off the path special character in PREFS is probably the best solution. If you ever decide to use paths, you can go to PREFS and change the character cmud uses for path prefixes. This is a useful feature for muds like yours which use some of the special characters for mud commands.

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:20 pm

alternativly you can use the ~ character to mark the next character as a non special character, it will be sent as is

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

In CMUD, you can use ` at the start of a line to make the whole thing literal. You can also enclose things in double quotes to preserve the characters inside.