[TF] hiliting with line breaks

[tony at ncsa.uiuc.e. (T. Rimovsky)]

its achaea.  i asked and they apparently don't have an option for turning off
line breaks.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:22:30AM -0700, fm...@cl... wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Karen Etheridge wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:09:56AM -0600, Tony Rimovsky wrote:
> > > I keep reading through the docs, but can't figure this out.  How do I
> > > write a pattern to match text that might (or might not) span a line
> > > break?
> >
> > There is no simple way to do so.  It would be much easier to try to find a
> > way to stop your mud from putting line breaks into things, and instead let
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Of course the mud he is on might be doing this on purpose to make
> it harder for people making triggers to automate some things.
> 
> Is it Two-Towers mud that has the no-follow-trigger rule?  They have a
> complicated system of assassin shadowing (ie an assassin can follow a
> target through many rooms) that has specific ways to break the shadow - ie
> running through the swamp will throw your opponent off track.  Since the
> messages are still given, one _could_ write a set of triggers to augment
> this skill (or simulate it for classes that dont have it).  I do not think
> they do any technological tampering to try and prevent it, but if I were
> in their shoes, I might put a random newline in here and there to screw up
> triggers :).
> 
> Fred
> 
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