"cast 'summon' Blackstar" returns the error "Summon who?" instead of working
like "cast 'summon' blackstar"

Could we get this fixed?

Thanks, Beliar

help lower_case

No such help file found.

Type 'help help' for manual on help command.

Searching the help files for 'lower case'...

Could not find anything about 'lower case'

Commands which accept capitalized names: cure light wounds, cure serious
wounds, cure critical wounds, minor heal, remove scar, water walking, tell

Commands which do not accept capitalized names: summon, finger

My basic two points seem to be lost on some people. Point #1: consistency
would be nice. Point #2: being able to use the same alias to cast at someone
and to use his/her name in a conversation would be nice.

FYI, there are no help files on to_lower, tolower, lower_case, lowercase, nor
any relevant help files returned with help lower. I don't know what \help is,
though I'm guessing it's ZMud help or TF help, which I don't use, nor do I use
Linux.

Beliar

Solutions:

1) Immort, make code consistency your goal, make good on your goal

2) Convince some wizard to pore over every single line of code, making sure
everything is consistent.

How does this problem come up anyway? If you're typing by hand, you might find
it easier to never capitalize player names anyway unless you're typing on
channels/etc (even then, most players won't mind if you don't capitalize their
name) If it's coming from a trigger, I hope you know that casting spells based
on input from the mud is illegal...

I think its quite obvious what Beliar said that he doesn't use zMUD nor TF.
Prolly he tries to get along with telnet. With telnet you really can't
have triggers. And if he was using a trigger capable client, it prolly
wouldn't be any problem for him to use %lower or \lower in his aliases/
triggers.

I have to agree with him, putting a couple lower_cases in the code isn't
such big a deal. And when this kind of a 'bug' is found, wizards should
be more than eager to fix it. At least this is how it is supposed to work.
Maybe BatMUD has evolved past that..

Cheers,
-T

Beliar cheers Gore and Twomi enthusiastically!

I'll mudmail if I find any other affected spells/skills/commands.

Can it be fixed in the code for the cast/use commands?

Beliar

There is also same case-sensitive bugs in party commands which I like to see
fixed.

Lady Ealoren


--
Sister Ealoren

you have to be a little more specific that a lot of code to be diging in

In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theyre not.

I recall either rais/ress/body had the same problem in teh past. Dont sure
now.

++Coyolxauhqui