[PENNMUSH] Preserving % at input

[kahmy at cal.berkeley.edu]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jason Newquist wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> We've had a nagging problem on my social MUSH for a while now, and I 
> thought I might present it here to see if anyone can help crack it.
> 
> We have some code which allows people to simply paste a URL into the 
> MUSH, thus:
> 
>  	&WWW3_CMD Globals = $http*:  @tr me/url_code =
>  		http%0, %N, %#
...
> Is there anything we can do to preserve percentages given at input 
> time, before they're evaluated and thus vanish?
> 
> Jason Newquist
> San Francisco Bay Area

A lot of the other suggestions sound good, but when in doubt, you can 
always use the nuclear option and implement a hard code command.  Doing 
no-eval in hard code is as simple as passing the right parameter to 
command_add(), and the command you want looks straightforward to add 
(well, other than the trigger).

Sometimes I wish it were a little easier to specify no-eval behavior; 
maybe a no-eval user mode, if you're not a big coder anyway and never 
purposefully use the PennMUSH evaluator.