http://xpertmud.sourceforge.net/

Alpha. Very visually appealing. Languages: Perl, Python, (Ruby “soon”, though they seem apathetic), possibly JavaScript later.

eXtensible PERl scripTable MUD client
Abandoned: As of 2020-05-14, not updated since 2004-03-30.
- Unresolved feature requests and bug reports. No activity on the mailing list or forum.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xpertmud/
Wiki
- This is primarily for BattletechMUX, but that was where Xpertmud’s author haunted so there are software notes therein.
- Note: Navigate the archives by manually pasting/editing URLs.

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2006-11-25 – cvs_xpertmud.sh on (distribution not recorded)
2005-07-04 – CVS on (distribution not recorded)

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1 2006-11-25 – cvs_xpertmud.sh
2 2005-07-04 – CVS
3 Scripting ideas

2006-11-25 – cvs_xpertmud.sh ∞

echo "<enter>"
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xpertmud login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xpertmud co -P xpertmud

cd xpertmud
make distclean
make -f Makefile.dist

# --with-extra-libs= is pointing to the dir with libperl.so
./configure --enable-perl --disable-python --disable-ruby --with-extra-libs=/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/

#./configure --prefix=/home/user/.kde --enable-perl --disable-python --enable-ruby

# echo Note that you'll need to add /home/user/.kde/bin to your path after completing the install.

make

2005-07-04 – CVS ∞

Very easily installed RPM.

libperl-devl is required for Perl support. Synaptic had this.
I do have libperl.so, it is found at: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so

echo "<enter>"
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xpertmud login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xpertmud co -P xpertmud

cd xpertmud
make -f Makefile.dist
./configure --enable-perl --disable-python --enable-ruby
make

Spoiler

Making all in en
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/xpertmud/doc/en'
ln -s ../../xpertmud/scripting/perl/perl-devel.docbook .
ln -s ../../xpertmud/scripting/python/python-devel.docbook .
(cp ./index.docbook .) || true
cp: `./index.docbook' and `./index.docbook' are the same file
/usr/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 index.docbook
I/O error : failed to load external entity "python-devel.docbook"
warning: failed to load external entity "python-devel.docbook"
index.docbook:142: error: Failure to process entity python-devel
&python-devel;
              ^
index.docbook:142: parser error : Entity 'python-devel' not defined
&python-devel;
              ^

./configure --enable-perl --disable-python --enable-ruby

Spoiler

checking for ruby... no
./configure: line 1: -e: command not found
checking for ruby compile flags... ./configure: line 1: -r: command not found
-I
checking for ruby link flags... ./configure: line 1: -r: command not found

The font of Console 13 looks wonderful.
The windowing is godlike.
It may be necessary to allow the loading/unloading of multiple parsers.. i.e. two or all of Perl/Python/Ruby.
Be able to quickly toggle between three colour modes:
1. user-selected
2. normal
3. bright-only
Be able to middle-click anywhere in the window and have it paste into the commandline.
Be able to page up while typing, to visit the scrollback.
Cannot connect to more than one server at a time with the same client. It’s easy to fire up more than one occurance of the program though.
shift-delete deletes but does not copy to the clipboard. shift-insert pastes.
After unloading the parse, grey-out the option to unload the parser.
When I highlight text, have the highlight follow the text as it scrolls up.. the same as with an rxvt window.
- Ack, this cvs doesn’t allow this anymore.
There doesn’t appear to be a way to get Ruby support enabled. There is no documentation for it. Argh. I’ve posted to the mailing list.
http://xpertmud.sourceforge.net/docs/Perl_XM.html#Perl_XM_echoMode — To turn echoing off (Perl).
Cannot configure the colours and have they appear immediately, not in the buffered window or with future text.
Cannot configure the toolbar and have the results show immediately.

Scripting ideas ∞

Misc ∞

Stats plugin
Idle
AFK
Rest/Sleep – regen ring
- Show / time ticks. Notify for quest-time.
Quest notification
Quest timer plugin
rauc notification
Identify something and report back
Identification “memory” — record all information about all past identifications.
- Try to understand equipment identifications to maintain an item history, so I don’t have to keep re-identifying the stuff I’ve already identified and am wearing.

Spellup ∞

Spellup for stats / levelling
Spellup for combat
Understand spell information: class, level, effects… in an array?
Be aware of failed spells.
Spells in a certain order.
Know what spells are in effect and act accordingly.
Deal with running low / out of mana.

Rings ∞

Invis
Regen (also associate with sleep)

Weapons ∞

Identify a weapon and store it in an array:

Level
Name / keyword(s)
Storage location / keywords(s)
Damage type
Weight
Stats?

This way I can type “earth” and switch to the earth damagetype.

Improvements ∞

Switch to a lower level weapon of the same type if necessary.

Dual-wielding:

If dual wielding (have it check or set a variable to remember)

Equipment ∞

Slot
Use (leveling/combat)

Put items into a level-based array and have it automatically trade up after leveling.

Notes ∞

telnet://btmux.com:5555
addcom xm=Xpertmud
delcom pub

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