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As you learnt about in the previous chapter, there are several ways that other people may request information about you. This chapter describes the commands that you can use in order to customise what other people see.
Often, you will have already selected your gender when you first logged in. If you haven't, or you wish to change it (huh?), you may do so with the 'gender' command.
If you think you're male, type 'gender m'. The females among us should type 'gender f'. If you're undecided, or you just like being called an 'it' whenever it comes up, type 'gender n', for neuter.
You can determine someone else's gender on, for instance, the finger screen. Some of the lines will begin with His, Her, or It's, as in 'Her total login time is...'.
Your title is the text that appears after your name on the finger and
examine screens. (And occasionally in a few other places). If you
haven't yet changed it, your title probably reads something like:
You can change it with the title command. You don't type in your name,
just the last part. For instance, typing 'title spends
too much time online!' will look like:
I'd love to go into that much detail for everything that you can set up,
but I think you've got the idea now. Instead, here's an example finger
screen, and a little template showing what everything is an where it
goes:
Your title
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slide the newbie, so please treat me nicely
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(You can see what people see when they finger or examine you by typing
'finger me', or 'examine
me'. This trick works with a lot of other commands, as well.)
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slide spends too much time online!
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Something else you can do is use some punctuation at the front of your
title to make it look a little different. Here's an example: 'title : first spod of Forest'.
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slide: first spod of Forest
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The rest
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sLiDe: first spod of Forest
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slippery sLiDe has been logged in for 49 minutes and 3 seconds
sLiDe is logged in from [jian/127.0.0.1]
His total login time is 1 hour, 43 minutes and 17 seconds
He is 23 years old
Also known as: Joe
His email address is: joe_citizen@hotmail.com
His web page is: http://realm.progsoc.uts.edu.au/key
--------------------------------------------------- plan ---
"I want to take it back... I want to start again"
Natalie Imbruglia
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The template for finger:
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[your recapped name] [your title]
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[your prefix] [name] has been logged in for [since you logged in]
[name] is logged in from [your site]
[gender] total login time is [your total login]
[gender] is [age] years old
Also known as: [aka]
[gender] email address is: [email address]
[gender] web page is: [webpage]
--------------------------------------------------- plan ---
[plan]
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And a quick explanation of the new terms and their commands:
recapped name:
You can change the capitalisation of your name. To achieve
the effect above, you would type 'recap
sLiDe'.
your title:
Your title sometimes appears after your name. Type 'title : first spod of Forest'. If your
title doesn't start with a punctuation character, a space
will be automatically inserted.
your prefix:
Your prefix sometimes appears before your name. Type 'prefix slippery'. There are strict
limits on the length of your prefix, as it can show up in
tells and remotes, also.
gender:
Your gender is indicated with the "His", "Her", or "It's"
words. You can become male with 'gender
m', female with 'gender f',
or neuter with 'gender n'. Isn't
the net a scary place?
age:
Your age must be an integer. Set it like this with 'age 23'.
email:
webpage:
plan:
Your plan only appears on the finger screen. Generally
people just use it to write neat stuff, about themselves or
otherwise. To set it type the red words:
-> plan
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Entering the forest editor
There are lots of other neat things you can do in the editor
to make editting lots of text easier. The main commands
you'll need to know are:
The examine screen is very similar to the finger screen, but there are a couple of extra elements, so we'll show the screen and it's template here:
--------------------------------------------------------------- sLiDe: first spod of Forest --------------------------------------------------------------- A bright yellow plastic slight, including a metal ladder and 15 blue rungs. --------------------------------------------------------------- slippery sLiDe has been logged in for 21 minutes and 53 seconds sLiDe is logged in from [jian/127.0.0.1] --------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------The template for examine:
--------------------------------------------------------------- [name] [title] --------------------------------------------------------------- [description] --------------------------------------------------------------- [prefix] [name] has been logged in for [time since login] [name] is logged in from [your site] --------------------------------------------------------------- [ranks] ---------------------------------------------------------------The fields we haven't seen:
Also available are several 'messages' that can be displayed to other
users in certain circumstances. You can get a list of these with the
'msgs' command:
When someone isn't allowed to talk to you for this reason, they'll
get this message.
(This is called being informed, and they turn it on or
off with 'inform <name>'. You can
list the people you are being informed of with the 'informs' command. You can also request to be
informed for everyone with 'inform
everyone', or just your friends with 'inform
friends'.)
When they are sent this notification, you can set a personalised
message for them to also see. When you log in (connect), this is
your loginmsg. When you log out (quit), this is your logoutmsg.
That about wraps it up for externally visible information. The rest
of the chapter deals with the parts of your profile that configure
the way things work just for you.
Colours can not only make your window more aesthetically pleasing, they
make it easier to work out who is talking to you, and how.
Before you can use colours effectively, you must be using a
colour-compatible terminal, and indicate to the program that this is so.
First, check that you are using a colour compatible terminal. Type
'iscolour'. If your terminal can display
colours, you'll get a screen like:
Initially, you are given a default colourset, chosen by yours truly.
It seems that most people dislike my choices of colours, and so the next
section explains how to change them:
The most important command is the 'colours'
command. This command shows what your current colourset is. This is
the default colourset (which you already have):
A complete list of the colours you may use is on the 'iscolour' screen, above.
For technical reasons, it isn't possible to strictly list all of the
available classes to colour (it is easily extendable on a per-site
basis), but here is a fairly comprehensive standard list, with
explanations:
Just to warn you so you don't get confused, some of the colours will
default to others if they aren't set. For instance, if you don't have
the blocking colour set, 'sLiDe blocks the clan' will probably show up
in the colour you have set for the clan channel. In order to completely
understand the rules for how this works you have to understand the
design of the colour system, which isn't something I'm going into here.
;)
-------------------- messages for sLiDe ---------------------
idleMsg : I'm eating dinner
blockMsg : Leave me alone
blockingMsg: I'm busy atm
loginMsg : Everyone say hi!
logoutMsg : later
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These messages can appear to other people in varying contexts:
blockmsg:
When you 'block' someone ('block
>name<'), it prevents them from talking to you. If
they try, they'll get this message.
-> blockmsg I'm busy atm
When you are blocking them, people will now see:
sLiDe is blocking you: Leave me alone
blockingmsg:
When you 'block tells', you prevent
just about everyone from talking to you. (If you have previously
typed 'allow <name> tell' then that
person will still be able to talk to you).
-> blockingMsg Leave me alone
When you are blocking tells, people will now see:
sLiDe is blocking: I'm busy atm
loginmsg, logoutmsg
It is possible for other people to request to be notified when you
log in.
-> loginmsg Everyone say hi!
Your login informs will now appear:
} sLiDe has connected: Everyone say hi! [relation]
-> logoutmsg later
Your logout informs will now appear:
{ sLiDe has disconnected: later [relation]
INCOMPLETE: hide, webpage, email
Colour
Another aspect of your profile that you may set up is your colour
settings. Your colour settings don't affect how you are viewed by
others, but certainly change your outlook on the world.
The words on the lines below should be displayed in colour
blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, dark
brightBlue, brightGreen, brightCyan, brightRed,
brightMagenta, brightYellow, white
If you can see the above colours, you have an ANSI colour terminal,
and you can type 'term ansi' to force it on. If some of the words
appear bold, you probably have a vt100-style terminal. Use 'term
vt100' to force that on.
If the words are actually coloured on your screen, you can follow
the instructions and type 'term ansi' to
activate colours on your terminal.
-> colours
-------------------------- colour entries --------------------------
player: brightMagenta clan: brightBlue
friends: brightGreen shouts: brightWhite
room: cyan connection: red
movement: brightRed
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To change these, you can use the 'colour' command like this: 'colour <class> <colour>'. For instance,
'colour player brightMagenta', to set the first
entry on this list.
player:
This colour is used for lines that are sent to you from other
players, directly. (In EW-speak this is your classic 'hitells'
or 'colour tells'). At the least, this includes tells, remotes,
and rthinks.
-> colour player brightMagenta
Effects from player will now be brightMagenta.
clan:
This colour is used for everything sent through the clan
channel, if you're in a clan.
-> colour clan brightblue
Effects from clan will now be brightBlue.
friends:
This colour is used when you recieve friend channel messages
from another person.
-> colour friends brightgreen
Effects from friends will now be brightGreen.
shouts:
For shouts and other messages that go to everyone online.
-> colour shouts brightwhite
Effects from shouts will now be brightWhite.
room:
For messages that come from the room you are in, such as says,
emotes, thinks, and echos.
-> colour room cyan
Effects from room will now be cyan.
connection:
For inform style messages, notifying you when people log in or
log out of the program.
-> colour connection red
Effects from connection will now be red.
movement:
For messages sent when a player moves around, such as entering
or leaving a room.
-> colour movement brightred
Effects from movement will now be brightRed.
blocking:
For messages that indicate that a player has started/has stopped
blocking a particular channel that you're on. For instance
'sLiDe blocks the clan'.
-> colour blocking magenta
Effects from blocking will now be magenta.
Miscellaneous
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