From: Joshua Haberman <joshua@...>
Date: 2005-09-04T04:06:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Still looking for a Ruby MUD client

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On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Sy wrote:
> On 8/31/05, agemoagemo@yahoo.com <agemoagemo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> --- Sy <sy1234@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Btw, as an aside.. vwmc doesn't use the telnet
>>> library by choice..
>>>
>>
>> The main reason that I, at least, am using net/telnet
>> is to let it's preprocessing function handle telnet
>> control codes.
>>
>> Most of the rest isn't usable, due to the various ways
>> that (in my understanding) MUD output breaks the
>> telnet spec.
>>
>
> Does this mean that a "mud-telnet library" ought to be made, to help
> various other clients with these intricacies?

I'm not a MUDder, but I'm working on a project that probably already  
does a lot of what you want.  It's called 'silkscreen' -- here's its  
minimalist web page:

http://silkscreen.sourceforge.net/

In a word, it's designed to be an uber-scriptable text mode  
environment, where you can run different sorts of applications in  
nonoverlapping windows.  The first such application is a terminal  
emulator like GNU screen, so that you can run a shell.

And once you're running a shell, you could telnet to a MUD server.

I haven't actually written any scripts in silkscreen yet, but it  
wouldn't be much work to support an interface like:

TerminalWindow.add_line_callback { |window, line|
     if line =~ /you are hungry/
         window.insert_keypress("eat\n")
     end
}

If you're interested, download silkscreen and give it a try.  Let me  
know what you think.

I'm working on silkscreen all the time -- right now I'm working on  
scrollback support.

Josh

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