[TF] refined speedwalk script?

[kevin at sb.o. (K. Ballard)]

Before seeing speedwalk.tf I wrote my own speedwalk stuff from scratch, 
with the command called /go. It supports single-character paths like 
eeensw (no numbers to designate multiple ones, though, so the speedwalk 
path n3es3en would be neeeseeen) as well as multi-character paths 
separated by a non-word character (i.e. things like ne n ne n e e s, or 
south-west-open door west-west-north). It has a complete description of 
valid paths in the comments. It also supports saving paths, as well as 
writing paths to file and loading them again. I like it very much, but 
since I stopped doing MUDs I haven't used it anymore. It's attached. I 
hope it's useful!

BTW, it can easily be used to automate other tasks as well. If you want 
to have a macro to create a magic mushroom and eat it, simply save a 
path like ;cast 'magic mushroom';get mushroom;eat mushroom and save it 
with the name mushroom, then typing /go +mushroom will create a 
mushroom and eat it. If you notice, the first character is a ;. That's 
because the commands themselves contain non-word, non-space characters 
(single-quote to be specific) in the first command, so without the 
semicolon (the separation char) first the path would be split by 
single-quotes. For a more specific description of how it works, it 
looks for the first non-alphanumeric/non-underscore/non-space character 
it can find for the separation character. If there are none, it uses 
spaces (so you can have spaces in commands easily, but you can also use 
it as the separation character easily). If there are none, it assumes 
the path is made up of 1-character commands, like neswud and splits it 
up like that. A full description is in the comments.

Note: I called this go.txt instead of go.tf because the .txt ending 
makes it easy to distinguish the commands I wrote from the built-in 
commands. Just in case you were wondering :)

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On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 09:21  PM, T.C. Shaddox wrote:

> Hello,
> ?
> I am extremely new to TinyFugue and extremely new to writing and 
> editing script. Not to mention that I havd done close to no 
> programming at all.
> ?
> I was just wondering if anyone has refined the speedwalk.tf file to 
> include semidirectional commands like sw nw ne etc.
> ?
> As it is with the 4.01 release the speedwalk will only work with a the 
> straight north west east and south and that just wont work on many 
> muds. Thanks and hey great program, great mail list.

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Kevin Ballard
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http://www.tildesoft.com