Hi,
Is anyone aware of an extension or other way to emulate something like bash’s text completion?
One alternative option is to go for closed menus (as for some of the CYOA-type games). But I’m wondering if it’d make it more open but still relatively easy for some end-users if the interface helped them select their commands.
Hope that makes sense…
TIA.
Check out Jon Ingold’s The Colder Light. It uses the (Glulx-only) extension Interactive Parsing, which provides autocomplete-by-tab.
Thank you, I’ll take a look.
Darn. I ended up in a maze of dependencies that still need updating for 6L02 (although I’m using 6L38). I’ll see if I can make sense of the problems.
It’s possible that there are newer versions of his extensions on GitHub. If I were you I’d ask around.
You could also get the old version of Inform that it does work with, if you don’t need the new features.