Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Idioms: Wearing #RLV items by name

I mentioned this in the post on the 0.98l update, but it's worth calling out again. 

Access to the #RLV folder was one of the areas where I was concerned that a command interface would be harder to use than a typical menu-based UI.  However, in practice I find it much quicker to use the commands, in part because they allow much faster navigation between different folders that a menu-driven system, especially if the folders contain more subfolders than would fit in a single menu.

One situation where the Mesmerizer's approach shines is when you you know the sub has a particular item, but you don't know where it is in her #RLV subtree.  For example, assume I know that she owns a set of RR Vixen Leather Cuffs, but I can't remember where she keeps them.  The following sequence would usually let me put them on her:

/99 find vixen
/99 wearoverall "$rlvpath"

This works because the find command (as of 0.98l) sets the variable rlvpath with the results of its search.

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