Aliases

An Alias is a rule that is triggered by submitting text in the Input box to an active and connected mud window. Such rules can then alter the text entered by the user before it is submitted to the mud, and/or trigger some special Action.

Like other editors, you can customize your global Aliases from the Global Options/Aliases menu, or customize the Aliases that apply only to the active mud window's phonebook entry through the Window/Aliases menu.

The top list field in the Aliases editor allows you to either begin adding a new alias, or editing or deleting an existing one from the list. When adding or editing an entry, Red fields will denote those with invalid or missing data. Changes to an Alias will not be submitted so long as a Red field exists. The fields are as follows:

• Name: The unique name of your Alias. If a phonebook alias name collides with a global alias name, then the phonebook one will be preferred.
• Pattern: The pattern that must match the input text for it to be replaced, or action taken. The pattern may be a Regular Expression or a simple string that matches the beginning of the user input. All alias patterns are case-insensitive.
• Replace: The string to replace the pattern with, when matched in user input. If RegEx is checked, then you may use &match1;, &match2;, etc to insert text from a capture group into a replacement string or an action argument. The matched and replaced string is then the one that is submitted to the current connected mud.
• Action: (Optional) Take an additional Action.