[TF] Prompt Hook

[bargle at umiacs.umd.e. (G. Jackson)]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Johan van Selst wrote:

>James West wrote:
>> Is it possible to program triggers or hooks based on information contained
>> in a prompt? What I would like to set up is a hook that replenishes my
>> health in-game when my health gets below a certain number. This number
>> is shown in the prompt. Is this possible?
>
>Yes, you can use  -h"prompt pattern"  for this.
>For example a macro like
>
>	/def -mregexp -h"prompt health:([0-9]+)" = /let health=%P1%;\
>		/if (health < 10) replenish%;/endif
>
>would set the variable %health to the current health level and send the
>"replenish" command if it drops below 10. Assuming you prompt looks
>something like
>
>	[Warrior health:20/30 mana:03/20]
>
>See /help hooks for more details.

One caveat: hooks don't strip out ANSI codes like triggers, so if
you've got a color prompt, you might have trouble.

On the MUD I used to play (Nodeka, nodeka.com:6000), we could set up
our own prompts, including carriage returns, so I just set up an
easily parsed line before the real prompt that triggered other things,
and got gagged.

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					Gary Jackson
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