Multi-line triggers

[rigrig]

This is pretty awesome!

Why the need to include \n for enabling them though, would it be possible to just make triggers containing %a multiline?
So this would just work: #action {\A%* tells you: %a\Z} {/handle_tell {%1} {%2}}

Another nice thing would be if there was some flag to make a trigger match newlines as space.
So #act {line containing some text} {/some_text} would trigger on

This is a (variable length) server-side wrapped line containing some
text.

without needing to resort to #act {line%acontaining%asome%atext} {/some_text}

[scandum]

This should work:

#action {\A%* tells you: %a\n\Z} {/handle_tell {%1} {%2}}

That trigger is unlikely to work in practice however since most blocks end with a prompt.

Not a bad idea to trigger multi-line mode on %a. It's not really useful for anything else, that I know of. %a predates multi-line mode, so I'll probably start out with a warning not to use it in single-line triggers.

As for matching newlines as spaces, great idea. I've added it to my todo list, but I'm not sure what a good way to enable that mode for a trigger is. This would probably be a little bit better:

#act {line\scontaining\ssome\stext}