MUSHclient scripting

This lets you add or amend the behaviour of MUSHclient "accelerator" keys. For example, you could make Ctrl+E become "eat meat".

This is similar to the Accelerator function (see elsewhere), however this version allows you to specify where the "send text" is to be sent to (for example, to a script, to a speedwalk, to the output window).

These changes only apply to the current world (the one the script function is run in). They override any existing macros or accelerator keys defined for MUSHclient's default behaviour.

You specify three arguments, the keystroke to add or amend, the text to be sent, and where to send it.


The keystroke consists of this syntax:

CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + key

The modifiers CTRL, ALT and SHIFT are all optional, and are not case-sensitive. They can appear in any order.

The key can be one of the following:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Accept Add Apps Attn Backspace Cancel Capital Clear Control Convert Crsel Decimal Delete Divide Down End Enter Ereof Esc Execute Exsel F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 F13 F14 F15 F16 F17 F18 F19 F20 F21 F22 F23 F24 Final Hangeul Hangul Hanja Help Home Insert Junja Kana Kanji LButton LControl LMenu LShift LWin Left MButton Menu ModeChange Multiply NonConvert Noname Numlock Numpad0 Numpad1 Numpad2 Numpad3 Numpad4 Numpad5 Numpad6 Numpad7 Numpad8 Numpad9 Oem_clear Pa1 PageDown PageUp Pause Play Print ProcessKey RButton RControl RMenu RShift RWin Right Scroll Select Separator Snapshot Space Subtract Tab Up Zoom

They are not all guaranteed to work in the way you might expect. These names were obtained from the Windows include files. Some keys may be trapped by the operating system, or not be available on your PC.

Reasonable values to use would be things like:

Alt+Down
Shift+Ctrl+F2
Ctrl+N
PageUp
Ctrl+PageUp
F5
Ctrl+Shift+F9

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The "SendTo" argument specifies where the text is to be sent to. It can be one of:

0: World
1: Command window
2: Output window
3: Status line
4: Notepad (new)
5: Notepad (append)
6: Log File
7: Notepad (replace)
8: Command queue
9: Send To Variable
10: Execute (re-parse as command)
11: Speedwalk (send text is speedwalk, queue it)
12: Script (send to script engine)
13: Immediate (send to world in front of speedwalk queue)
14: Script - after omit (send to script engine, after lines have been omitted)

The case "set variable" is not very useful because there is no way of specifying which variable to send to.

Use "send to script" if you want to set a variable (using the SetVariable function).

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To disable a previously-assigned accelerator, call this function with an empty string as the command. eg

AcceleratorTo ("Ctrl+K", "", 0) -- return to default behaviour

If you wanted to make a key simply "do nothing" then you will need to do something like send an empty script. eg.

AcceleratorTo ("Ctrl+K", "--", 12) -- execute script with only a comment in it (Lua in this case)

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To see the name for a particular keypress use the Input menu -> Key Name dialog. This lets you type a key and have its name displayed. This name can then be used in this function.


Note: If you use AcceleratorTo inside a plugin, that plugin ID is remembered and becomes the current plugin (if possible) when the accelerator is pressed. Thus send-to-script is executed in the calling plugin's script space. If the plugin does not exist when the accelerator is pressed (eg. the plugin has been removed) then the accelerator does nothing. However send-to-execute works whether or not the original plugin still exists, for backwards compatibility with the original Accelerator function.

Note: Available in version 4.27 onwards.