


This would be important if the player pressed backspace, since the MUD would have to remove the character typed from the client's screen. Also, the MUD client might need to support some kind of basic cursor control, perhaps at least just to move the cursor back to the beginning of the line. So, you could type 'invento' and it would come out as 'inventory'.įor this to work, the MUD would have to process input character-by-character, like a shell, as opposed to only processing after a newline is received. It occurred to me that a MUD could behave somewhat like a Unix shell, with things like tab-completion for commands.
