Your First Session

Connect

Straight from your shell:

rune mud.example.com 4000           # plain telnet
rune mud.example.com 4000 tls       # TLS
rune tls://mud.example.com:4000     # same thing

Or start rune empty and connect from inside:

/connect mud.example.com 4000

Bookmark it

/world add example mud.example.com 4000

From now on, /connect example inside the client (or rune example from your shell) connects by name. /connect with no arguments opens a picker over your saved worlds, and /reconnect redials the last server, even across restarts.

Find your way around

• /help lists every command; / alone opens a fuzzy command picker.
• Up/Down navigate history with prefix matching: type tell and press Up to cycle only through your previous tells. Ctrl+R searches history.
• Tab completes words the server has used recently.
• PageUp/PageDown or the mouse wheel scroll the output. The status bar shows SCROLL (n new) while you’re off the bottom.
• Ctrl+C clears the input line; pressed twice on an empty line it quits.

The full tour of the input line (editing keys, Ctrl+E into $EDITOR, the default keymap) is in Input & History.

Log the session

/log start              # writes to ~/.config/rune/logs/<timestamp>.log
/log stop

The log is ANSI-stripped and reads like your screen: server output after your triggers ran, plus what you typed. Passwords are kept out of it, because the echo is suppressed while the server hides input.

Next

When you’re ready to make the client yours, head to Scripting Basics.