[MUD-Dev] Clients

[Vadim Tkachenko]

Matt Chatterley wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Shawn Halpenny wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
> >

[skipped]

> It would be possible to provide hooks for command completion via the
> protocol I am planning (many clients use their own comm protocols with
> servers; I will be offering a fairly simple, I hope, expansion protocol
> for this client, largely because I want to use it myself. The protocol is
> under the working name of Spud, and would do things like bolt-on graphics,
> restriction of client features and perhaps command completion and other
> shell extensions!).
> 
> It might be good to have command completion within the command history of
> the client, though. Eg if you have typed 'north' 'south' and 'northeast'
> recently, and enter 'nor' and hit tab, it will select 'north' and then
> 'northeast' upon a second push. Yes, I like that. :)

And, once again, all aboveskipped triggers one more bell: PEP, or
Protocol Extension Protocol.

Just a flamebite :-)

>         -Matt Chatterley

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