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# Re: Portable source form of MOO database

- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:54:45 PST
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- In-Reply-To: <m0tK2jH-0001s2C@ambient.uucp> from "Larry Mulcahy" at Nov 27, 95 04:32:00 am

    ...
    >
    > in the hopes that I would somehow be able to create a function that
    > would allow, e.g.,
    >
    >     @dig n,north|s,south to objnamed("Train Station Steps")
    >
    > Hovever, my efforts to come up with something that could be evaluated,
    > would take a place name as input and return an object were fruitless.

    Like in (t)csh, it is feasible to have substitutions into the command
    line at prompt time-- that is, you could do something like that above.
    Using a builtin I once wrote--do_command()--makes it one step easier.
    Although I do not have the in-db code at this time, I could make
    something that uses my builtin do_command() to process it.  Additionally,
    I have, using do_command(), added the functionability to be able to not
    only have a history list of previous commands, but to also retrieve them
    or make minor changes, as I saw useful in tcsh.  I made it possible to
    execute any command in the history list, append anything to the previous
    command, and to make minor changes to the command, like this:

       @vreb me:tell tnt rdx
       I don't understand that.
       ^vreb^verb
       > @verb me:tell tnt rdx
       Verb added (12).

    If anyone is interested in this code, let me know.

    --Nate
    natem@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu

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