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Beginner Joined: 16 Sep 2001 Posts: 10

I've got a gag command: #GAG The Torch of Eternal Scintillation crackles with the light of justice.

I was wondering if theres any way to gag that line but not receive a blank line.

Thanks.

Beginner Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 26 Location: USA

If you want to gag all blank lines, use this.

#TR {$} {#GAG}

If you want to gag the blank lines surrounding a pattern, try something like this.

#TR {pattern} {#gag -1;#gag}

I think that might work... but the fist is probably more effective and more graceful.

Dracx

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

I believe that this also works:
#TRIGGER {pattern$} {#GAG}

Kjata

Beginner Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 26 Location: USA

Yep, that works too, if he matches all the way to the end of the line.
(which is probably a good idea).

Dracx

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

quote:

I believe that this also works:
#TRIGGER {pattern$} {#GAG}

Kjata

Would this happen to be a mud/machine-specific issue? I haven't much of a clue, since a blank-line trigger gets gagged correctly but all other triggers seem to ignore the return character no matter what I try (short of multiple gag commands).

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Beginner Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 20

[quote="Kjata"]I believe that this also works:
<b>#TRIGGER</b> {pattern$} {<b>#GAG</b>}

Kjata[/quote]
Doesn't seem to work for me. On Aardwolf I get spammed constantly with blank lines if I do this. :( Right now I am gagging all blank lines, but I don't want to do that if I don't have to. Any ideas?

Wanderer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 69 Location: Australia

I use gag a lot, and don't have any problems with it. It does not insert a blank line, it just removes the last line that you have in the window (as opposed to the last line received).

One thing I found useful was experimenting with it offline (using #SAY and #GAG).

What I suspect is that you are getting an extra blank line from the MUD, just to format this text properly. That is:

^$ <--- extra 'blank' line to separate the line you want gagged from the rest of the text
^Line You want gagged.$

When you gag the text, you're just left with the extra line. If this is the case, just add another #gag and see how it works.

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 10

Hi. I'm scratching my head.

I have a trigger to gag out the timer now at message. It does not gag the line.

I tried deleting and remaking the trigger in a different folder etc.

Turning off 'informational messages' is not an option.

Any ideas? Please?

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:51 pm

you could turn the information messages text color to match your background.... but then it would appear like a blank line even though its not

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:51 pm

Hmmm, sounds like the trigger isn't firing (did you try putting in an echo statement to confirm) or that you that the text you capturing also has several lines in it.

Also the GAG command takes an optional number as argument.

The default is 0 which gags the current line.
#GAG -2, will gage the previous 2 lines.
#GAG 3 will gag the next 3 lines.

Try that and see if it helps.