[MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Travis S. Casey]

On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Koster, Raph wrote:

> Long ago, I specced a command for Legend which was CONVERSE. Basically, it
> put you into talk-mode with specific targets, precluding the need to type
> TALK WHOEVER or TELL WHOEVER every time you exchanged a sentence. It would
> just remember whether it was talk or tell, and would remember who you were
> conversing with until you ended the conversation. Sort of an extension of
> the common REPLY command. YALFTNGI. (Yet Another Legend Feature That Never
> Got Implemented...)

I've been on a few LPs that had such a command... indeed, it may have been
called "converse."  It put the character into a mode such that anything
you typed was interpreted as being a "say ...", unless you specifically
used some escape character at the start of the line.

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