Posts made by Ninjakitten

@Derp Well, I'm told it works in WINE, fwiw...

@GangOfDolls Smol answer: yes.

@Derp It does support auto-logging -- you set it up in the definition for a character, by telling it where to put it. There's an option to append the date, and if you do, it will make a new dated log each day, switching over at midnight. I have an issue in on the github for more flexible naming of the autologs, so if you want it to be able to do something else (new logs by month, I guess?) you could add to that or make another to ask. Or drop into the Discord and ask, it's pretty friendly/helpful.

@krmbm said in How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows:

Yeah, I don't Discord enough to bother joining a server. So, if anyone does and wants to send feedback? Being able to move the tabs to the top would be awesome.

Someone's going to shank me for triple posting, but tabs on the top is now in the current beta release. It's very exactly the bottom taskbar moved to the top below the menus, and I think it should settle in fine with SimpleMU muscle memory.

@skew said in How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows:

More about Input Windows...

And by prefix I mean you can do /newinput 'chat' and it will make a new input window wherein everything you enter into that window is automatically prefixed with chat.

I tested this out for OOC conversation in one world, and found one important thing to add to this: since it's possible someone might want a prefix that butts right up against the text sent, if you don't you have to include the space in your prefix. So for something like OOC, it should be not /newinput 'OOC' but /newinput 'OOC '. Hopefully, that might save someone else some confusion. But it works a treat once you set it up.

Also @Tat sorted out some IC-text-message formatting that almost threatens to drag me kicking and screaming into the 21st century, y'all. It's pretty slick.

@skew said in How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows:

Page Highlights

• Matcharoo: ^(From afar|Long distance to|\S.{1,20} pages|You paged .+? with).*$
• Options: Regular Expression
• Appearance tab: Change Foreground, then click Foreground...

I use this to send them to a spawn rather than to highlight, but I ran into a form of page that isn't included in this today, so here's my new Matcharoo: ^(From afar|Long distance to|\S.{1,20} pages|You paged .+? with|To \(.+\), .+ pages:).*$

Want more?!!?!?

Join the Discord server. There's some really great folks here. https://discord.gg/3A5quTU

It is pretty good.

@dvoraen So very /signed. I especially like when I suddenly understand why a character insisted on behaving a certain way in a scene some time ago, but I didn't know why at the time.

I've got a... er, short list of little things to probably bother the dev about on how they'd be in my perfect world, but so far, I'm pretty pleased with it -- enough to try a fully switched-over test period. Which is saying something, since I was genuinely at 'welp I guess I stick with SimpleMU until I can't get it to run anymore and then cry a lot'.

Also said dev seems super responsive and reasonable (hi, if he's reading this >_>). I know this stuff is a lot of work and figuring out what can be done about all the various users' personal preferences and if it's worth the time/effort in a given case isn't always easy, so that's admirable.

...plus, not having to copy-paste everyone's https links anymore is already so nice. T_T

@Tat Thank you! I would not have thought of using what I think of as 'next' to do the storing. Hmm... not sure what's going to happen when I'm trying to move through my history, now, but I can see how this goes.

I do think I'd have to make a couple-few suggestions/requests to switch over fully, but... hmmm.

So, I'm playing with it a little, and as a SimpleMUer..

1. Whoa, tabs are on the bottom? ...okay, I can probably get used to that.

2. How can I send something to history without sending it to the game? I'm constantly hitting escape to pop something there, sending something else, and hitting ctrl-p to get back to what I was doing. Changing the keys for prev/next in history is easy enough, but is there any way to just store something?

3. Is there any way to turn off automatically copying when I highlight? I often highlight while I read because it helps me to focus on just what I'm trying to read right now. It's really annoying to have it copy and un-highlight on me.

That's from my first pokes at it; I'll poke it some more later, but I wanted confirmation that I'm not just missing how to do 2 and 3 there. On the better side, I do think that ability to pull things like channels out into a side-window is neat, and the page-up split thing looks like it might be also.

@surreality Glad you shared it, 'cause otherwise, I still would have. >:D ALL MUST READ.

I haven't used BeipMU since... well, probably 1998. But that's looking pretty good these days, even speaking as a SimpleMU diehard. Maybe I'll get around to playing with it at some point...

Karl Lagerfeld, at 85 (they think).

@Testament said in MU Things I Love:

That scene was worth the waiting.

...just that phrase right there is a MU* thing I love. >_>

A well-constructed PC playlist.

@silverfox It should still be there, though? Esc doesn't copy it to the clipboard, it puts it in the history buffer just like if you'd sent it, without sending it. If you esc one pose, start another, and esc that, they're both there, you just have to do an extra ctrl-p to get back to the first one.

Just in case any old SimpleMU users don't know, a way to pause what you're writing to write something else without having to cut and paste anywhere is:

• work on thing one
• hit esc
• write thing two, hit enter
• hit ctrl-p twice
• continue writing thing one from where you left off

If you have a spawn for that game you could also flip to that and just send thing two from there, too, of course. I kinda like the idea of the dual sending windows but too many other things annoyed me back when I tried Potato for me to get the hang of using them, and honestly, the ONE thing that currently bugs me about SimpleMU is being unable to convince my computer that an https link in it should go to a browser, not open a mail program.

I hate coloured text in my MUing, so I'm very happy to stick with SimpleMU since I already have everything set to black on white, always black on white, only black on white. The only thing I wish I could do that I can't is drag and drop the order of my tabs, and I've used it long enough that I really don't ever need to -- I just put things in order to start with. So I'm probably going to end up sticking with SimpleMU until it won't run, I guess.

@arkandel I think this idea is neat, but it takes a lot of thought/time/mental energy to participate in,and right now I don't have it to spare. (But I hate when I have a neat idea and it doesn't get traction, so I'm sorry about that!)

@tinuviel I'm kind of a slow writer. It's unfortunate, but even paying full attention and intentionally trying to get faster, I'm more in the 10-15 range most of the time. It can get worse if things are intense. So I'm grateful for the people who think it's worth the wait, but, yeah, I can't really get a lot done in two hours.

I rarely start a scene if I don't have at least 3-4 hours and I'm perfectly happy to have them go on all day, assuming I have the day and things are interesting. I don't often do anything under 2 hours at all, because it feels like it doesn't get anywhere. So... I guess I'm just really out of sync with everyone else these days, unless there are a bunch of other people who prefer longer ones who aren't chiming in.