Re: prompt_hook

[email protected] (Christopher A. Craig)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.games.mud.client.lyntin
Organization Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID <[email protected]>
will guaraldi <[email protected]> writes:

> Here's why I'm asking: I just reimplemented the net module to use the
> telnetlib (which is broken in regards to telnet options in previous
> versions of Python [though I can't remember which ones--I think 2.2 but it
> might have been 2.1--I keep meaning to look this up]) and in doing so
> dumped all our prompt detection stuff.
> 
> I was originally thinking it'd be useful for things like mappers and
> anything else that really needs to link user commands with mud responses.
> Josh implemented his commandresponse module at a higher level and it seems
> to work a lot better.  I was never able to get my commandresponse module
> (which worked with the prompt detection) to work.

tinyui can put the prompt in the input region, but I'm sure I could
write something to pull prompts out at a higher level by checking for
the presence of a newline (or better yet a IAC+GA or IAC+TELOPT_EOR if
the server is well behaved) and spamming the prompt hook manually.

-- 
Christopher A. Craig <[email protected]>
"The world would be a better place if Larry Wall had been born in Iceland, 
 or any other country where the native language actually has syntax." 
                -- Peter da Silva (in alt.sysadmin.recovery) 



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