Targeting alias

[Excelsi]

I'm perfectly capable of doing this in other clients but I'm drawing a blank here. If I can get this done I'll be able to build from there.

This is what I've tried:

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^z (.*)$
target = matches[2]

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^x$
send ("play minorsecond"  .. target)

Either alias simply sends "z monster" to the MUD, which is a tell to someone who's name begins with Z.

[Vadi]

Try making sure that your alias (and the group(s) its in) are actually activated. (next version will auto-activate new items).

also:

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send ("play minorsecond "  .. target)

[Excelsi]

Still nothing. Everything is active, emergency stop is not on...very odd.

[Vadi]

Post a screenshot please. Maybe it's something else we're missing out.

[Excelsi]

Ignore the keyboard, my print screen key doesn't work.

http://yfrog.com/0dmudltarj
http://yfrog.com/2rmudltar2rj

[Vadi]

That seems ok... click on the folder the aliases are in, press the export button, and attach here. i'll try it on mine

[Excelsi]

Done. I installed the mantis system and those aliases expanded fine, but they didn't involve variables.

[Heiko]

Your target setting regex pattern doesnt match.
Use ^z (.*) instead.

[Vadi]

Either that or

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^z (\w+)$

Will. Not sure why (.*)$ isn't happy though

[Heiko]

^z (.*)$" *would* work nicely, *IF* he used that, but uses "^z (.*)$\s" which will never match in Mudlet.
That's why I told him to use the debug console in the future