Instead of going in a direction

Authoring Inform 7
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I have a single room with no doors. I like a friendlier message than “You can’t go that way.”

I tried

Instead of exiting: say "There's no way out of here."

That worked but prevented the player from exiting a container.

The compiler didn’t like any variation of:

Instead of going east or going west [etc]: say "There's no way out of here."

This compiled but didn’t do anything:

Instead of going in a direction: say "There's no way out of here."

Am I stuck with repeating “instead of going” for all 8 directions?

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Instead of going, say "There's no way out."
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Oh well duh. That worked, Kazuki. Thanks so much!