Echo My Input In (colour):

If you enable "echo my input" then commands you type (and transmit) are echoed in the output buffer (top part of the screen) after being processed for speed walking, macros (function keys), aliases, and command stacking. You will also see commands which have been automatically transmitted because they matched a trigger. You can choose the colour they appear in (from the custom colours).

This is very handy for keeping an eye on triggers, and what is actually sent after macros etc. are evaluated.

Speed Walking

This lets you configure speed-walking, which is a shorthand way of moving around (eg. 5S moves you South 5 times). See the description for "speed walking" for more details.

Enable Speed Walking, prefix is:

If checked, speed walking is enabled. You must specify a speed-walk prefix string which indicates to MUSHclient that what follows is a speedwalk (eg. "#").

Filler:

Some MUDs do not like length identical strings. You can specify a speedwalk "filler" which can be an innocous word like "look" which is sent whenever the letter "F" (for filler) appears in the speedwalk string.

Delay:

Some MUDs can not handle speedwalks sent at high speed. You can specify a delay in millisconds (thousandths of a second) which will be placed between each speedwalk direction. For instance, 500 would be 1/2 a second.

Command Stacking

Command-stacking lets you combine commands on a single line, for ease of typing, and to make it easier to recall them. For example:

open bag; get food; eat food; close bag

If checked, command stacking is enabled.

If command stacking is enabled you can use the command stack character inside a line by doubling it. That is, if the command stack character is ";" then entering ";;" will be converted to a single ";".

You can temporarily disable command stacking for a line by entering the command stack character as the very first character. For example, if the command stack character is ";" then entering ";say go west; then east" will be treated as a single line.

Command Stacking Using:

Specify the command-stack character here. It must be a single character (eg. ";" or "|").

Command Colours

Click on the colour swatches to specify the text colour, and background colour, for displaying commands. This is the colour used in the command window (the lower window), not the colour commands are echoed in the output window. To change the colour commands are echoed in, see "Echo My Input In (colour)" above.

Tab Completion...

Tab completion is a feature that lets you type a partial word, and then press [tab] to have MUSHclient complete the word from recent MUD output.

For example, if you received a message:

Gandalf tells you, hi there

You might type:

tell Gan[tab]

MUSHclient will scan backwards and find that "Gandalf" matches "Gan" and complete it for you. The number of lines it scans can be set by clicking on the "Tab Completion" button.

You can also specify a list of words that are to be searched, even if they did not arrive recently. To do this click the "Tab Completion" button and edit that list.

Keyboard preferences...

Click to edit various other command preferences that would not fit on the main commands configuration screen.

Auto-repeat Command

With this option checked, every time you press <enter> to transmit a command to the MUD, the command is retained (repeated) in the input window, but selected (highlighted). You can then press <enter> to send it again, or just start typing to replace it.

Tab Completion In Lower Case

With this option checked, when you press [tab] to auto-complete the word you are currently typing, it will be completed in all lower-case, otherwise the capitalisation of the word as it appears in the output buffer will be used.

Translate German characters

With this option checked, various German characters will be expanded out into normal ASCII characters when text is sent to the MUD. Translation takes place at send time, not command input.

Spell Check On Send

If checked, every time you send a command it will be spell-checked. The spell-checker must be enabled using the File Menu -> Global Preferences -> General -> Spell check -> Enable, otherwise this option will be greyed-out.

Translate Backslash Sequences

With this option checked, you can enter Escape sequences into your commands, to process characters you cannot normally type (such as the "bell" character).

Escape sequences can be used in various places to represent non-printable or special characters.

The sequences are:

\a Bell (alert)
\b Backspace
\f Formfeed
\n New line
\r Carriage return
\t Horizontal tab
\v Vertical tab
\' Single quotation mark
\" Double quotation mark
\\ Backslash
\? Literal question mark
\xhh  ASCII character in hexadecimal notation

See Also ...

Topics

Aliases
Auto-mapper
Getting started
Speed walking

Command

Dialog

Functions

(EvaluateSpeedwalk) Evaluates a speed walk string
(RemoveBacktracks) Removes backtracks from a speed walk string
(ReverseSpeedwalk) Reverses a speed walk string
(SpeedWalkDelay) The number of milliseconds delay between speed walk commands

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