Autocomplete
Posted by Kyle Hankinson August 3rd, 2022
What is autocomplete?
Autocomplete is a way to quickly turn a partial letter into a full word. For example if you were to type the letter look mer and hit tab, it might fill the completion text in as look merchant rather than needing to fully type out merchant.
An example:
How it works
MUD Client allows autocomplete keywords to be added via the scripting engine. An example of this could be an alias to the command look or inventory, or by a trigger that matches You see:.
To have words added to the autocomplete list, you must call the processForAutocomplete method with either an array of words or a string containing one or more words to be added. For example, you could have a login script with either of the following:
processForAutcomplete(['consider', 'kill']);
processForAutcomplete('consider kill');
In this example a regular expression is used to match from `You see:` until > (the cursor input for this mud). Everything inbetween is added for autocomplete.