[TF] matching different login specs

[renniefan at yahoo.c. (G. Morse)]

I code staff on some of the various games I play on,
so, I quite often am lurking DARK. Even so, there are
certain people that I always want to be able to
communicate with. To those people, I send out a
greeting message. I know it's annoying to many to
automate greetings, but, these are acceptable to all
parties ahead of time. :)

I've written triggers to watch for these people when
they connect.

I get different messages as to whether they're
connecting, depending on where I am, where they are,
and what game I'm playing.

Here are the three varieties:

[Monitor] Izzy has connected.
<Watch> Izzy has connected.
Izzy has connected.

I need to be able to match on all three, but, it is
possible that I'm in the same location, and will get
two of the three (the last one, and one of the other
two). That's because the last is a general game
connect message for anyone in the same room as you. I
only want to match to the generic "Izzy has
connected." if one of the previous two don't match AND
Izzy has connected :).

It might look like this:

<Watch> Izzy has connected.
Izzy has connected.

when Izzy connects.

I don't want to send out two greeting messages, which
is what my code is doing:

/def -w -F -t'*Izzy has connected.' izzy_con = \
   /send -w p izzy=[name(me)] is your friendly
neighborhood Code Staff -- online and ready to serve
you.

I know why, it's because it's matching anything before
"Izzy connects.", including nothing, which means if
there's two connect messages it matches twice.

I'd like to do this in one macro, as I already have to
define multiple versions of it for different login
names I'm watching for.

Whatever help folks can provide would be appreciated.

Gwen


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