tell/page command

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(this is a feature request)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. tell someone something
2. nothing happens
3. it would be nice to have this command

Please provide any additional information below.

"tell", or "page" (also called other things in other MUDs) is a command to
privately talk with someone, regardless of where that person is in the MUD.
For instance, if there are two users connected in the MUD, "aguy" and
"bguy", aguy would be able to do this:

tell bguy hello
> you tell bguy "hello"
tell cguy test
> cguy isn't logged in.

bguy would see:
aguy told you "hello"

if anyone else is logged on, they don't see nothing.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mindboos...@gmail.com on 11 May 2010 at 5:14

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I have a patch ready that will add this command, but I'm not sure this should
be a command for regular players.

I can see how you would want to talk with your friends, but it seems kind of
unrealistic. Maybe it should be a wizard command (@tell ...) and if you want
every player to be able to do this, we could add some kind of an item that
would allow them to use that power. Admins that want all players to have
this power could give one to every player.

Or it could be (another) configuration option...

Original comment by miss...@hotmail.com on 15 May 2010 at 4:44

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Just thought I'd add my thoughts here, I can see how having this as a globally 
configurable server option would 
be appropriate, particularly for games where role playing is optional.  It 
would make sense though in the normal 
case to implement as a wizard command, and to have items that can allow instant 
chat instead, as suggested - 
e.g. a radio or psychic crystal.

Original comment by i.has.in...@gmail.com on 16 May 2010 at 11:18

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closed with r389

Original comment by miss...@hotmail.com on 18 May 2010 at 12:38

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It is not working properly: if you have "a" and "b" logged on, when "a" talks 
to "b",
"a" sees:
   You tell b: "hello"
which is correct, but b sees:
   b tells you: "hello"
and he should have seen
   a tells you: "hello"

:-)

Another issue, which I am not sure it is related with this (possibly not) but 
that
I'm seeing with this revision (389) is that, when you are with talkmode = True,

Expected behavior (and how it was in the past):
.help
 - users help command
.@help
 - wizzards help command
.!help
 - admins help command

But in this revision:
.help - works as expected
.@help - works as expected
.!help - doesn't work
!help - works as .!help should , instead of doing the same as ".say !help"

Original comment by mindboos...@gmail.com on 21 May 2010 at 3:04

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Thanks. Fixed the tell problem (r390).

Speech mode problem discussed more under issue 32.

Original comment by miss...@hotmail.com on 21 May 2010 at 10:45