Mudlet - Forum

Well, i tried it once, didn't like it. Kitai (you know who you are Kitai!), keeps singing the praises so i have a few questions to hopefully make this blasted contraption more bareable.

1. Every prompt comes with a blank space afterwards...

Kitai says, "Better than some frozen picture."
H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs

Kitai says, "It's a log that you can play back in real time."
H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs

...Why is this happening?

2. Commands echo on new lines, this is bad, new lines filled with echo's result in less output from the MUD.

H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs
say if they are global variables, yes
You say, "If they are global variables, yes."
H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs

4 lines for 1 input, horrible. Much preferable to have...

H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs say if they are global variables, yes
You say, "If they are global variables, yes."
H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs

3 lines, 25% saving of space. This is good.

3. Down arrow should remove any current text in the command line so you don't have to slam down delete for X seconds.

3 problems, all minor, but extreme annoyances. Any solutions?

Grand title but does it really boil down to something being plain crap because it doesn't suit your personal taste?

First of all - which version of Mudlet are you using?

Sani wrote:Well, i tried it once, didn't like it. Kitai (you know who you are Kitai!), keeps singing the praises so i have a few questions to hopefully make this blasted contraption more bareable.

1. Every prompt comes with a blank space afterwards...

Kitai says, "Better than some frozen picture."
H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs

Kitai says, "It's a log that you can play back in real time."
H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs

...Why is this happening?

Because your MUD is doing that. Mudlet provides a fix, see the "fix unnecessary linebreaks on GA servers" option in the main display for this.

Sani wrote: 2. Commands echo on new lines, this is bad, new lines filled with echo's result in less output from the MUD.

H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs
say if they are global variables, yes
You say, "If they are global variables, yes."
H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs

4 lines for 1 input, horrible. Much preferable to have...

H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs say if they are global variables, yes
You say, "If they are global variables, yes."
H:401|457 M:406|406 Bal:eblrgcxs

3 lines, 25% saving of space. This is good.

Same thing, the MUD ends everything with a newline, mudlet's echos start off where the cursor is, hence it ends up on that line. We'll add an option to make it "go back" to the previous line though so it saves space like that (though I would like to point out that your 25% space obviously is not correct)

Sani wrote: 3. Down arrow should remove any current text in the command line so you don't have to slam down delete for X seconds.

You don't! Just press ctrl+a and start typing your new text. So instead of down, try ctrl+a and then type.

Apparently there's a newline sent after the GA so the fix in Mudlet won't do any good either... But until that's fixed by Selkrener, here's a little fix for hiding that space for now:

The MUD you play... great promise or plain crap?

I went there.