I've been looking through the 3.0 code for a while now, and haven't been
able to find something that provides me with the command line in text
format. I've found a structure that contains the head/tail pointer of a
command line and a "get_from_q" routine that extracts the data at that
pointer into a string. So far, I've gathered that this:
get_from_q(&d->input,buf,&aliased);
will take the data on the user's command line ("d" is the descriptor data
for the player's login data, I suspect now), "buf" is defined as a
character array of MAX_INPUT_LENGTH, and "aliased" I haven't figured out
yet, though it has to be defined as a variable to be acted upon.
My intent is that whenever the prompt is displayed, the user's input will
be displayed so they can continue typing. Within the make_prompt
routine, I call the get_from_q routine above with a local buffer and [int
aliased] as parameters and append it (strcat) to the end of the prompt
after it adds the "> ". However, the input isn't being appended.
Any ideas?
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