Nexus Documentation Amendment

by Shiri

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Shiri2005-11-09 08:52:24
Okay, so, the Nexus help thing BLOWS. And I just discovered Nexus has a parsing character, kind of like ; on zMUD. Discovered it accident while trying to paste a GTS thing. I can't actually paste an example, but when I type

CODE
say testing >> bounce


This happens.

CODE
3149h, 3521m, 3842e, 10p, 14645en, 16955w ex-say testing
You say, "Testing."
3149h, 3521m, 3842e, 10p, 14645en, 16955w ex-bounce
You bounce up and down.
3149h, 3521m, 3842e, 10p, 14645en, 16955w ex-


This may mean sod all to everyone else, but it's actually a nice and quick way of having triggers that vary based upon conditions delivering multiple responses without having to make a new alias for it. I seem to remember thinking of one other use a minute ago, but I can't remember it now. Just thought I'd let everyone know since it doesn't say this anywhere.
Aiakon2005-11-09 09:33:57
what's parsing?
Unknown2005-11-09 09:38:12
I thought parsing was where you enter more commands on one line and they go separatly, "say hi;boo;wave" Which would put each on a different line.
Shiri2005-11-09 09:42:40
QUOTE(tenqual @ Nov 9 2005, 09:38 AM)
I thought parsing was where you enter more commands on one line and they go separatly, "say hi;boo;wave" Which would put each on a different line.
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That's what it is.
Sylphas2005-11-09 09:46:47
Parsing is reading through something and understanding it. Like, it'll parse your commands. That's simply a character that tells the parser "Hey, new command here." Not quite the same thing, but close enough.
Shiri2005-11-09 10:00:09
Yeah, I know, but Gwylifar called it a parsing character, and I thought it was just kind of assumed that it meant this specific kind of parsing...>_>
Gwylifar2005-11-09 15:13:22
I can't remember why I'd've called it that. It is certainly a character and it's definitely being used to parse, but so are quite a few others. I think the term you really want here is "command separator".
Shiri2005-11-09 15:18:40
Maybe I just remembered wrong. Well, whatever.
Narsrim2005-11-09 15:21:57
Who cares, yay for "command line separating character doohikie"
Athana2005-11-09 15:26:27
Cool discovery!
Daganev2005-11-09 17:49:30
I'd call it a new line charachter... but thats just me.

That is going to help me so much! Especially when sprinting to new places.
Shiri2005-11-12 01:14:59
Glad to be of service biggrin.gif
Shiri2005-11-12 12:31:19
On a side not, if anyone wants to like, experiment or whatever and find out a "loop" type thing where you can repeat an action x times, or if you can find something that will do like "the second last thing I did" like ! does (I doubt it, but I can hope) I would be veeeeery grateful. biggrin.gif
Shiri2005-11-14 13:09:30
For anyone who cares, I think they fixed the bug with highlighting that would cause highlighted things to just fail.

My herbs started turning up yellow today, before they just didn't.
Unknown2005-11-14 20:56:25
QUOTE(Narsrim @ Nov 9 2005, 10:21 AM)
Who cares, yay for "command line separating character doohikie"
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Zmud has it too, it's an on/off button right next to the triggers on/off button.

and ya, I'd just fall over and die without the ability to use it to mass-send certain commands