A fellow Client user is trying to figure out if there is "a way so that after every command line the client puts an auto space at the bottom of the page?"
The full message they asked is as follows:
Good day and hello to all of you. I currently use Mushclient and when a command string is entered by myself or someone else in the game the message appears at the very bottom of the screen (as intended) That being said, Is there a way so that after every command line the client puts an auto space at the bottom of the page?
Ahhh, for something you enter you could conceivably make an alias
that picks up all entered commands, and prints a blank line after it.
For “someone else in the game”? I’m not sure how that would work.
I believe he means anything that comes across the output screen, whether they input a command (like look, be it in the room itself, or a player/object, or if they say/do something < ; dances a jig / "Hey, what do you want to do?" / ooc wait, did you just tell a dad joke?!>), Or if someone else does/says something, be it another player, or something from the game itself... They want a blank line (%r) at the end of every command.
So far I tried the Input > paste & > send: "send at the end of each line" think %r <think basically just echos what you type, sort of like a personal note, letting you basically test something without the game processing it, and thus spamming everyone... IE think %x<#FB6673> is THIS color%xn ... showing you the color instead of everyone in the room.
Neither one did anything, and since windows stopped allowing "Help" to work and show the help file (even though I've done the workaround 2-4 times, it keeps breaking and telling me help couldn't be started/shown)... not sure how to automate the alias, so it activates every time without typing the alias, and the only functioning triggers I know how to make are highlighted words (tried setting one up to look for any character at the end of a line, and send the "think %r", then tested it by looking at the room, it didn't add a blank line.
Yes, but, a command is something you type. They want
a blank line after everything? Maybe excepting room
descriptions?
This is a weird requirement, and in the 27 years I have been working
on this client, no-one has wanted a blank line after things
other people did.
Maybe send a tell to the MUD coders?
Ask your fellow client user what his algorithm would be to implement
this. In plain English, for example if <something> arrives from
the MUD add a blank line. And how do you define <something>?
If the server doesn't work that way, however, then Nick is right and this becomes the sort of thing that needs to be done by the server coders, because you actually don't want blank space after every message. You want blank space after indivisible outputs that could potentially span many lines (e.g. room descriptions), and MUSHclient has no way to know where some complete output ends and another one begins.
I think we already understand what you want. A client can't do it unless the server cooperates, because the client needs some kind of signal from the server that differentiates between five one-line messages and one five-line message.
If indeed people say things in a consistent way, eg.
Penny does blah blah blah
You could make a trigger: "* does *" which would match that, and that could output a new line.
However I'm guessing that your example is only a vague example. Perhaps if you posted exactly the sort of text that you have in mind, it would be easier to help.