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Want an alias to repeat a command x times
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| Posted by
| Fraust
(5 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Sun 10 Feb 2008 03:32 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| I just starting using MushClient and have always been a Zmud user. My question is how I go about doing a repeat on the command line or in an alias/trigger.
For example. In Zmud I would have entered the following:
<command line> #7 drink potion
the output would have been 7 lines of drink potion.
Is there something similar for that in Mushclient?
Help!
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Sun 10 Feb 2008 04:21 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| There is a bit of a discussion about this here:
http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?bbsubject_id=3311
A fairly good way is to simply add this alias (I have amended the one in the above thread a bit to use Lua, as that is now the recommended script language):
<aliases>
<alias
match="^#(\d+) (.*?)$"
enabled="y"
regexp="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="100"
>
<send>Execute (EvaluateSpeedwalk ("%1 (%2)"))</send>
</alias>
</aliases>
See http://mushclient.com/pasting for how to add this into your world.
The alias above uses EvaluateSpeedwalk to do things repeatedly (as in, you can do 4n or 4(burp)).
However that one fails if you have a bracket in the thing you are trying to do (as that will confuse EvaluateSpeedwalk). The version below simply does a loop, so that might be better:
<aliases>
<alias
match="^#(\d+) (.*?)$"
enabled="y"
regexp="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="100"
>
<send>
for i = 1, %1 do
Execute "%2"
end -- for loop
</send>
</alias>
</aliases>
All that does is take the number you supply, and do the command that many times.
Maybe it is wise to check the repeat count is not too small or too big, this is my final version:
<aliases>
<alias
match="^#(\d+) (.*?)$"
enabled="y"
regexp="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="100"
>
<send>
if %1 < 1 then
ColourNote ("white", "red", "Too few repeats specified (%1)")
return
end -- if
if %1 > 50 then
ColourNote ("white", "red", "Too many repeats specified (%1)")
return
end -- if
for i = 1, %1 do
Execute "%2"
end -- for loop
</send>
</alias>
</aliases>
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #2 on Sun 10 Feb 2008 05:45 AM (UTC) Amended on Sun 10 Feb 2008 05:46 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
| The reason I used "Execute" in the script is to send whatever you typed back through the command processor.
You could substitute "Send" for "Execute" but then whatever you type is literally sent (which may be OK).
The difference shows up if you use aliases or speedwalks.
Say for example you have an alias "healme" (which might do "drink potion").
If you want to be able to type:
#5 healme
Then you want to use the alias I posted above.
See:
http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/function.php?name=Send
and
http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/function.php?name=Execute |
- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Fraust
(5 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #3 on Sun 10 Feb 2008 10:41 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| Okay,
I think I understand what you did. I followed your suggestion and made the alias you posted, but now when I try do to #4 burp, I get the following.
Error number: -2147352567
Event: Execution of line 1 column 13
Description: invalid syntax
Line in error:
if 4 < 1 then
Called by: Immediate execution
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #4 on Mon 11 Feb 2008 02:22 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | I mentioned above that this alias was for the Lua script language. Is your scripting language set to Lua? |
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www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #5 on Sun 17 Feb 2008 02:06 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| I have turned my idea into a plugin, you can use this to achieve what you want:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE muclient>
<!-- Saved on Sunday, February 17, 2008, 2:05 PM -->
<!-- MuClient version 4.19 -->
<!-- Plugin "Repeat_Command" generated by Plugin Wizard -->
<muclient>
<plugin
name="Repeat_Command"
author="Nick Gammon"
id="7f69fe2f7913b2ac312ecbad"
language="Lua"
purpose="Repeats a command "x" times"
date_written="2008-02-17 14:04:23"
requires="4.00"
version="1.0"
>
<description trim="y">
<![CDATA[
To use, type:
#n command
This sends "command" n times to the MUD.
For example:
#3 kick kobold
]]>
</description>
</plugin>
<!-- Aliases -->
<aliases>
<alias
match="^#\s*(\d+) (.*?)$"
enabled="y"
regexp="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="100"
>
<send>
-- check at least 1 repeat
if %1 < 1 then
ColourNote ("white", "red", "Too few repeats specified (%1)")
return
end -- if
-- check not more than 50 repeats
if %1 > 50 then
ColourNote ("white", "red", "Too many repeats specified (%1)")
return
end -- if
-- execute (send to command processor) the command
for i = 1, %1 do
Execute "%2"
end -- for loop
</send>
</alias>
</aliases>
</muclient>
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- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #6 on Sun 17 Feb 2008 02:14 AM (UTC) |
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