This is a guide mainly for the MUSH client SimpleMU (a free and highly recommended download available HERE), but should work with any client that supports triggers/events and regular expressions. The menus may vary, but the strings themselves should not.
Editing logs can be tedious, deleting all the lines of chat on public channels, pages from other players, or OOC messages. However you can easily configure SimpleMU to automatically filter this text from log files so that preparing logs for posting on the Marvel Revolutions wiki will be quick and painless.
First, click on the menu bar at the top, Games > Add Event Definition. On the first line, beginning "When incoming string", change the dropdown box to "expression:". In the open space after it, copy and paste the following string EXACTLY (and don't worry if you aren't on some of these channels, it won't hurt anything to filter them anyway):
^(Avengers> *|Barnes Academy> *|Gaming> *|Guest> *|Help Me!> *|Looking for RP> *|Not Safe For Work> *|Public> *|Spoilers> *|Twitter> *|Villains> *|WizChat> *|Xavier's Academy> *)
Then check the small box next to Omit the line of text from logs.
All messages from these channels will no longer appear in any log files you record, making logging a much cleaner and simpler affair.
Make a new event, using the same process as above and checking the Omit From Logs button, but enter the string:
^(You page-pose, *|In a page-pose to you, *|\S.{1,20} pages, *|You page, *)
This will now also filter any pages or page-poses you make or receive from log files.
A third event with the much simpler string:
^<OOC> *
will filter any OOC messages from log files.
You may also want to go to Preferences > Global Preferences, and in the Options tab click Log Options. Check the box next to Extra Carriage Return Between Lines. This will automatically doublespace any logs you make by inserting a blank line between each line of text that you log.
Hopefully this little guide will make the process of preparing and posting logs to the Marvel Revolutions wiki simple and even fun!
