Add functioning prefix-ignorer and cleanup of code.

evennia/commands/cmdhandler.py

@@ -549,6 +549,8 @@ def cmdhandler(called_by, raw_string, _testing=False, callertype="session", sess
             if not cmdset:
                 # this is bad and shouldn't happen.
                 raise NoCmdSets
+            # store the completely unmodified raw string - including
+            # whitespace and eventual prefixes-to-be-stripped.
             unformatted_raw_string = raw_string
             raw_string = raw_string.strip()
             if not raw_string:

evennia/commands/cmdparser.py

@@ -120,17 +120,10 @@ def cmdparser(raw_string, cmdset, caller, match_index=None):
         mindex, new_raw_string = try_num_prefixes(raw_string)
         if mindex is not None:
             return cmdparser(new_raw_string, cmdset, caller, match_index=int(mindex))
-        elif _CMD_IGNORE_PREFIXES:
+        if _CMD_IGNORE_PREFIXES:
             # still no match. Try to strip prefixes
-            new_raw_string = raw_string.lstrip(_CMD_IGNORE_PREFIXES) if len(raw_string) > 1 else raw_string
-            if len(new_raw_string) < len(raw_string):
-                raw_string = new_raw_string
-                matches = build_matches(raw_string, include_prefixes=False)
-        if not matches:
-            # try to match a number 1-cmdname, 2-cmdname etc
-            mindex, new_raw_string = try_num_prefixes(raw_string)
-            if mindex is not None:
-                return cmdparser(new_raw_string, cmdset, caller, match_index=int(mindex))
+            raw_string = raw_string.lstrip(_CMD_IGNORE_PREFIXES) if len(raw_string) > 1 else raw_string
+            matches = build_matches(raw_string, include_prefixes=False)
 
     # only select command matches we are actually allowed to call.
     matches = [match for match in matches if match[2].access(caller, 'cmd')]

evennia/commands/default/cmdset_character.py

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class CharacterCmdSet(CmdSet):
         self.add(building.CmdWipe())
         self.add(building.CmdSetAttribute())
         self.add(building.CmdName())
-        self.add(building.CmdDesc())
+        self.add(building.CmdSetDesc())
         self.add(building.CmdCpAttr())
         self.add(building.CmdMvAttr())
         self.add(building.CmdCopy())

evennia/commands/default/general.py

@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ class CmdDesc(COMMAND_DEFAULT_CLASS):
     will be visible to people when they
     look at you.
     """
-    key = "setdesc"
+    key = "desc"
     locks = "cmd:all()"
     arg_regex = r"\s|$"
 

evennia/commands/default/tests.py

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ class TestBuilding(CommandTest):
         self.call(building.CmdName(), "Obj2=Obj3", "Object's name changed to 'Obj3'.")
 
     def test_desc(self):
-        self.call(building.CmdDesc(), "Obj2=TestDesc", "The description was set on Obj2(#5).")
+        self.call(building.CmdSetDesc(), "Obj2=TestDesc", "The description was set on Obj2(#5).")
 
     def test_wipe(self):
         self.call(building.CmdDestroy(), "Obj", "Obj was destroyed.")

evennia/contrib/extended_room.py

@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ class CmdExtendedDesc(default_cmds.CmdDesc):
         "Define extended command"
         caller = self.caller
         location = caller.location
-        if self.cmdstring == '@detail':
+        if self.cmdname == 'detail':
             # switch to detailing mode. This operates only on current location
             if not location:
                 caller.msg("No location to detail!")

evennia/settings_default.py

@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ SEARCH_MULTIMATCH_TEMPLATE = " {number}-{name}{aliases}{info}\n"
 # over the error output (it uses SEARCH_MULTIMATCH_TEMPLATE by default).
 SEARCH_AT_RESULT = "evennia.utils.utils.at_search_result"
 # Single characters to ignore at the beginning of a command. When set, e.g.
-# cmd, @cmd and +cmd will all find a command "cmd" or one named "@cmd". If
+# cmd, @cmd and +cmd will all find a command "cmd" or one named "@cmd" etc. If
 # you have defined two different commands cmd and @cmd you can still enter
 # @cmd to exactly target the second one. Single-character commands consisting
 # of only a prefix character will not be stripped. Set to the empty