Realiasing existing commands [answered]

Authoring Inform 7
1

I would like to direct several existing commands (e.g., “out”, “leave”) toward an insteaded existing action (or toward a newly defined action, whatever gets the job done), but to my surprise, I am repeatedly informed that this is not permitted. How can I alias multiple existing commands to a different thing?

2

What did you try, and what was the error message?

3

I tried several different things, and ended up stripping it down to just one existing command aliased to a newly defined action in order to figure out what was making Inform unhappy:

  1. Understand “leave” as sallying. (This did not produce an error, but it also did not work; the default “leave” behavior was applied.)
  2. Understand the command “leave” as “sally”. (This produced the error message: You wrote ‘Understand the command “leave” as “sally”’ : but ‘understand the command … as …’ is only allowed when the new command has no meaning already, so for instance ‘understand “drop” as “throw”’ is not allowed because “drop” already has a meaning.")

Edit: Hang on, is this because I’m using the build I downloaded in… 2012?.. and haven’t updated it?

4

You need to say

Understand the command "leave" as something new.

to knock out the existing grammar for “leave.” Then you can redirect it.

5

Ohhhh, okay. Thank you!