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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] handling ambiguity, and prompts</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
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[Raz:]
:From my position as a designer, it seems to me that any command issued
:immediately after a question prompt would be assumed to be a response to =
:the
:question - if the response fails to satisfy the requirements of the =
:prompt,
:then the prompt is cancelled and the 'response' is handled as the regular
:command that it is.
I could probably handle that, but I would still like a way to turn off any
such prompting. If you have an RL interruption, or even an in-MUD one,
the command and prompt can disappear off your screen and out of your
memory. If the prompt itself is always visible, and indicates that a
question is pending, then you should be able to enter something that
will specifically cancel *any* outstanding question.
In earlier discussions, Chris L. had talked about nested questions/prompts,
and ways of suspending them indefinitely using an escape character to allow
you to force through a non-answering command without cancelling the
question/prompt. This kind of thing is what would bother me as a user -
the "stack" in my brain is only about 2 deep!
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00626" HREF="msg00626.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 21:47 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00605" HREF="msg00605.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00664" HREF="msg00664.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 22 May 1997, 13:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00665" HREF="msg00665.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 22 May 1997, 13:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00600" HREF="msg00600.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] handling ambiguity, and prompts</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 20 May 1997, 00:10 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00646" HREF="msg00646.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] handling ambiguity, and prompts</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 08:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00803" HREF="msg00803.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] handling ambiguity, and prompts</A></strong>,
Raz <a href="mailto:muddyraz#mushroom,demon.co.uk">muddyraz#mushroom,demon.co.uk</a>, Mon 26 May 1997, 10:49 GMT
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Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 13:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00598" HREF="msg00598.html">Re: (fwd) Re: Multi-threaded mudding (was a flamefest)</A></strong>,
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