Since the help documentation on this site was written, a number of commands have been added or improved in their functionality. This page is meant as a brief overview of a few of those commands.

Globals

This is a command which has always been there, but recently a lot of work has been done to make it more readable and user-friendly. Essentially what this command does is show you a list of commands available to you other than the default ones shown by help. To see the list, type globals. You can also get help on specific globals by typing globals [command].

globals

Globals Listing for NIMHmuck -------------------------------
[:Argo System:]
*+argo         
[:Miscellaneous:]
 @concount      @lsedit        @request       @time  
 @zcreate       Ansi Test      comsys         editplayer 
 FC             Find           GoBack         Gohome  
 lookat         Map            Meet           morph   
 OOCC           page           paste          Pinfo  

globals editplayer

--< EDITPLAYER >--------------------------------------------
Editplayer is a menu-based character editing suite, designed
 user-friendly as possible. To use it type 'editplayer'
 any of the categories to start setting up your character. 
 different kind of menu screen based on which category you
 editplayer, you can set your pinfo, say verbs, a multi-line
 more.

Paste

This command allows you to send multiple lines of text to the room, or to specific people without the hassle of having to spoof every line. This is particularly useful for displaying excerpts from logs. As shown by globals paste, there are two ways to use it.

To send to the entire room you're in, type paste on a line by itself. This is important, since paste interprets everything on the same line as the command to be a character's name.

To send to specific characters, no matter where they are on the muck, just type their names beside the paste command, like this: paste [name1] [name2]. You can specify as many people as you want in the list.

Whether you type paste or paste Tzolkin, the first thing you will see is this:

[ Paste lines of text here, and type '.end' when finished, or
[  '.abort' to abort. See '.h' to list additional commands.  
< Inserting at line 1 >

From here it works just like the lsedit command. Just paste your text in, and type .end to send it.

paste
Hello, World!
My name is Bob!
.end

++Paste(Tzolkin)++-------------------------------------------
Hello, World!
My name is Bob!
-------------------------------------------------------------
Sent to: Room

Public Chat Channel

This command allows you to chat with other players muckwide, to help with finding and organizing RP. There are three commands which call it by default, and every player is automatically joined the first time they connect. These three commands are public, pub, and chat. For the sake of this tutorial, we'll be using chat.

The basic use of this command is very simple if you're familiar with chat and page. To send a message, simply type chat [message], and if you want that message to be a pose, put a colon (:) at the beginning of your message, like this: chat :[message].

chat Hello.

[Public] Tzolkin says, "Hello."

chat :waves.

[Public] Tzolkin waves.

In the event you no longer want to hear the chat channel, you can turn it off by typing chat off, and you can turn it back on by typing chat on. To see who is currently listening on the channel, type chat who.

Editplayer

This is really one of the simplest commands listed here. Editplayer works similar to commands such as @request and pinfo, only it acts as a one-stop editor for setting such things as pinfo, complex descriptions, age, title, and a lot more. It also allows the creation and management of multiple sets of descriptions and settings, called morphs. To use it, just type editplayer. On-screen instructions will guide you through the various menus available to you from its compact main menu.

Something I feel should be mentioned about morphs, in particular, is even though you may be switched to a morph, editing your main description will not make those changes "stick" if you choose to morph to another description and back. In this way, the morph menu acts as a backup for your descriptions, allowing you to do interesting temporary things without fear of losing the original. In the event you do want to make a permanent change to a morph, just enter the morph menu, and edit it directly from there.

If you have multiple morphs set up, you can quickly change between them by typing morph [morph name].