Talk:Commands

Jaxen's Feedback (From Page Mail on 2017-08-14

• Under Struture & Command Life style, I think it would be worth noting that a few commands, notably editors such as editplayer, mail, lsedit have a more involved usage case than send the command (with parameters), it runs then returns results. Once you enter those commands, you're in another shell until you exit it.

  • I'm working on rewriting the article to include these concepts, since there isn't a good way to address this idea with the current structure. Since the article is, overall, considered okay without being overly technical, I feel comfortable mentioning this concept in here. I'm not sure how relevant it is to the average user aside from, depending on the application, they have to interact with the MUCK in a restricted way, but it's worth putting in if I'm talking about program linking. -- Alkani 2017-08-14 12:31:12

• Minor thing under Return. You give an example the outputs caused by paging, but one might wonder, what was the imput typed to generate that output? ---Jaxen

  • The output in Return is based on the command string that Violet composed at the end of the Composition section. However, that linkage isn't apparent. I have added text to make it clearer that the Return section output is based on the input from the Composition section. -- Alkani 2017-08-14 12:31:12

• Should it be mentioned it's possible for one to have personal commands or area specific commands? 'Restrictions' might be a good place to note this if any. --- Jaxen

  • I was struggling with whether or not to add this as a remark, so now I will. -- Alkani 2017-08-14 12:31:12

• Under 'Global Commands', I think it's worth noting SpinDizzy tries to set a description on all globals which leads to documation of said global. It's also common practice on MUCKs for the parameter '#help' to bring up that command's documentation. ---Jaxen

  • I've added an explanation about using 'look <command>' and '<command> #help' to get help for global commands. Both syntaxes are used extensively, with more weight being placed on 'look <command>' in the current global command set (78 v. 57). The remaining twenty-one commands use neither. Perhaps unifying the global command help system could be a small side project of mine at some point. -- Alkani 2017-08-14 12:31:12

• Lastly, I added whospecies to the short list of common commands, so if any newbie comes across that list, they'll know how to tell if they're in a room with someone to talk to. ---Jaxen

  • Thank you! Hoping to expand this list considerably as part of the Getting Started document. -- Alkani 2017-08-14 12:31:12