Merge EMOTE and SMOTE

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Tamryn
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Merge EMOTE and SMOTE

Post by Tamryn » Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:18 pm

Currently we have two commands that do similar, but slightly different things.
  • EMOTE allows colours, SMOTE does not
  • SMOTE allows $character references, EMOTE does not
On FK SMOTE is much more useful, but most MU*s call the command EMOTE, not SMOTE. So this is a needless difference for newbies to learn.

I suggest that EMOTE understand both colours and $references, and SMOTE just be made a built-in alias for EMOTE (and the help updated to explain it this way).
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Re: Merge EMOTE and SMOTE

Post by Casamir » Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:04 pm

I cannot say I like this. Unless we can toggle the character intercepts, when you do and do not want characters like ' " $ or { to trigger dialogue changes like speech.
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