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Beginner Joined: 08 Jul 2002 Posts: 10

I want to create an alias for my who command that high lights certain names but then turns the high lights off. I have it worked out correctly. The problem I'm running into, however, is with the name of the alias. I want to call it 'who' but the command 'who' must be entered up the list of those online. This creates an infinite loop. Any ideas?

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

In an alias you can get around not calling
it again by #SEND'ig the information

#ALIAS who {#SEND who}

Ton Diening
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Beginner Joined: 08 Jul 2002 Posts: 10

thanks for the prompt reply. that helped. i'm having a problem now deleting some temporary triggers i made. for example i have:

variable: who
value:
#CW Bob
#CW Ted
#Send who
#UNT Bob
#UNT Ted

but it doesn't get rid of the triggers. suggestions?

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

I tried

#CW Ted 71
#SEND who
#UNTRIGGER Ted

Appeared to work

Ton Diening
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more complicated than others.

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

You can also create temporary triggers by using the #TEMP command. Once these triggers fire, they delete themselves. So, you could do:
#TEMP {Bob} {#CW 71}
#TEMP {Ted} {#CW 71}

Kjata

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Another way to allow an alias to share the same name as the actual command is the quote symbol ~.
#AL who {~who}

LightBulb
Senior Member

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

quote:

Another way to allow an alias to share the same name as the actual command is the quote symbol ~.
#AL who {~who}

LightBulb
Senior Member

Definitely, but in these cases you'll sometimes have to check for "default" command options (which you can safely ignore and send to the mud as-is).

For instance, one of my fellow players put out a general invitation to write an extension to our MUD's WHO command. Our WHO has about a dozen or so options to it so a player could narrow down the list.

WHO ALL -- shows everyone anywhere in the game
WHO RANGE -- shows everyone within your current boundary area, can be combined with specific lists like RACE
WHO RACE/CLASS/RELIGION -- shows everyone in-game who is the same race/class/religion as your character
WHO (race/class) -- with a single exception (thieves), this shows everyone who is of that race or class

One of the things the WHO command doesn't do is list all of your friends online, so I created a WHO alias that extended the command's functionality.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

mdeming,
It looks like you've somehow created a variable

quote:
variable: who
value:
#CW Bob
#CW Ted
#Send who
#UNT Bob
#UNT Ted

To get rid of the variable use
#UNVAR who

You can also delete settings in the Settings Editor. Select the undesired setting, right-click, and delete.

LightBulb
Senior Member