Mudlet features and API requests

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Belgarath
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Re: Mudlet features and API requests

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ktiedt wrote:I would love to have an escape char for the cmd separator! One of my biggest annoyances to date!
Yes, yes and yes! Long have I suffered the semicolon splitting my nicely punctuated sentences.

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Setting it to a double semicolon fixes the problem.

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Vadi wrote:Setting it to a double semicolon fixes the problem.
But I don't like typing two semicolons... just typing one semicolon in the midst of a battle is a lot easier for those who fight manually and need to stack up commands, typing ';;' is ... not very pleasing to the eyes and it also takes up valuable typing time.

Also in response to @SlySven, couldn't the apostrophe's just be escaped with \? Same as something that could be added to the command line should someone want to type out an alias without it actually firing?

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Double-tapping ; isn't slow but ok :P you also won't see the double ;; on the screen because it is removed, so nothing unaesthetic there.

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But then: "did I just press the semi-colon once or did my finger slip and I entered two?" so it ought to be visually changed to show this - I know, let us invert the colours for it ah I haven't done the code for invert/strikethough/overline to do that yet...

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why is there a sudden opposition to the well tested pattern of having an escape character? *boggle*

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Nah, I wouldn't be opposed to having one added. Just pointing out that this can be dealt with.

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I already made the escape char feature once. It must have gotten lost in the transition from sourceforge to github so it can be put back in.

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Unless I am missing something, we currently have no way to reliably ascertain Mudlet version via the Lua API. Because of this, might I propose the following:

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getMudletVersion()
This would return a string, giving the current version. I opted for a string to assist those of us using n.n.n-dev branches.

Thoughts?

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For the most part you should be checking for the functions you need, not hardcoding to a particular Mudlet version. There are edge cases where doing that is hard, so that would be useful, but a bad programming style.

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