Change 'v' from #versionshort to #chronicle.
Change 'V' from #history to #versionshort.
History can still be accessed either directly with the extended command,
or via the help menu.
Versionshort now accepts the m-prefix, and then shows the longer version.
Comparable to #vanquished, be able to view info normally available
during end of game disclosure while the game is still in progress.
The new #genocided command lists all genocided and extincted types
of monsters. Unlike #vanquished, there aren't any sorting choices.
Potential future enhancement: provide a way to view the genocided
list at the "what do you want to genocide?" prompt.
Make the existing '#vanquished' command be available during regular
play, with M-V bound to it. 'm #vanquished' or 'm M-V' brings up
the sorting menu that you get when answering 'a' rather than 'y' at
the end-of-game "disclose vanquished creatures?" prompt.
The original #vanquished came from slash'em, where it was available
in normal play. When added to nethack, it was put in as wizard-mode-
only. I added the sorting capability several years ago.
The chosen sort is remembered and re-used if not reset but only for
the remainder of the current session. It probably ought of become
a run-time option so be settable in advance and across sessions but
I haven't done that.
For
key name description
reduce the width of the first column from 8 spaces to 6 and increase
the width of the second column from 8 spaces to 10 so that fewer lines
have misaligned third column caused by long name.
Also a small amount of extra verbosity, mostly for I and A/P/R/T/W.
A couple of additional things witnessed in between the frequent adds
shown by youtube (top prize goes to the recurring popup ad advertising
popup blocking).
He knew that ^D meant a control character but thought that he had to
type Ctrl+Shift+d instead of just being able to type Ctrl+d. And he
had no idea what "meta key" meant. (I don't think I've ever seen a
key labeled that myself.)
Add new '|' command, aka #perminv, which allows the player to
send menu scrolling keystrokes to the persistent inventory window.
Implemented for X11, where its usefulness is limited, and for
curses, where it is more needed and also more fully functional.
The interface can either prompt for one keystroke, act upon it,
and return to normal play, or it can loop for multiple keystrokes
until player types <return> or <escape>. X11 does the former if
the 'slow' application resource is False so that prompting uses
popups, and the latter when 'slow' is True where prompting is in
a fixed spot and doesn't end up causing the persistent inventory
window to be stacked behind the map window. curses always does
the loop-until-done approach. It also accepts up and down arrow
keys to scroll one line at a time.
Also adds two new menu scrolling commands, menu_shift_right (key
'}' by default) and menu_shift_left ('{') if wincap2 flags contain
WC2_MENU_SHIFT. Shifting allows different substrings of too-long
lines to be seen.
For X11, neither works because their handling requires a horizontal
scrollbar and for some reason that escapes me our menus don't have
one of those. If they did, shifts could work for all menus but a
shifted window would hide the selection letters. So shifting would
be most usefully done as: pan right, read more of any long lines,
immediately pan back to the left.
For curses, they only apply to the persistent inventory window.
Shift right redraws it with class headers and inventory letters
shown normally but the item descriptions omit their leftmost
portion, showing more text towards the end. Shift left reverses
that and does nothing if the beginning is already in view. Forward
and backward scrolling while shifted leave the shift in place.
Add fixes36.1 for '&' command's support of altmeta option.
Short command help lacked an entry for '&' command.
Wizard mode help omitted #vanquished and some other obscure commands.
The meta keystroke commands which use an uppercase letter were all
missing from dat/hh:
M-A annotate level
M-C show conduct
M-N name something (synonym for M-n, which is a synonyn for 'C'all)
M-O display dungeon overview
M-R ride/unride steed
M-T tip a container
(All meta keystroke command shortcuts are missing from dat/help.)
Rename the option for adding coordinates to autodescribe feedback for
the '/' and ';' commands from 'getpos_coord' to 'whatis_coord', after
the '/' command that uses it instead of after the internal routine
that implements it. The 'whatis' name was only in dat/hh as far as I
could find, so this changes it to 'what-is' and also updates dat/help
and the Guidebook to mention the name too.
Add a 'screen' choice to the option to show coordinates as row,column
rather than x,y or compass direction(s). Revise the /m, /M, /o, /O
operations of 'what-is' to honor the whatis_coord option (mostly; a
value of 'none' gets overridden by 'map' to force coordinates).
Also, update the description of the functionality of the '/' command
in the Guidebook. The .mn version is tested, the .tex one isn't.
Explore mode is now an extended command #exploremode.
There's no sense that a command used max. once per game, and
in normal games not at all, takes up a key. So, analogous to
the 'x' command (swap weapons), 'X' now toggles two-weapon
combat.
Use the grave accent (back tick) character as the keystroke for a
new command which prompts for an object class and then shows a subset of
the discovered objects list covering just the selected class. Similar
to the 'I' variant of 'i' for viewing inventory, and mainly useful once
the '\' discoveries list has grown long.
Implement <Someone>'s menu-mode for #name, primarily because it
is the natural place to add [re]naming entries in the discoveries list,
something that was requested in the newsgroup ten or so years ago. The
latter allows changing the type name of something which has previously
been named and is no longer being carried.
This also makes the C command become a synonym for #name or vice
versa; one or the other could now be reassigned to something else.
Since "weapons and spell skills" is grammatically suspect and
"weapons and spells skills" sounds odd, change to "weapon and spell skills"
in both the Guidebook and the game's online descriptions. The #enhance
command itself uses "current skills" and doesn't need any alteration.
Per <Someone>'s request, make the game's description of the ``#enhance''
command be the same as in the Guidebook by mentioning spell skills.
Combining weapons plural with spell singular isn't right, but I'm not
sure which way to change that so am leaving it alone. On the other hand,
the poor grammar used to describe the ``#conduct'' command is easy to fix.
- various commands were missing from various help files
- fix a few inconsistencies between similar help files
- M-2 doesn't do #twoweapon when number_pad is enabled
- M-? usually displays #? help info
- weasel-word the reason the screen shown in the Guidebook looks little like
several windowports
- document the playersuffix syntax in the nethack.6 man page
<Someone>'s message said this was committed, but the cvs repository
didn't reflect his changes.
> Subject: patch: #rub touchstone
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:33:27 -0800
> <email deleted>
>
> Implement <Someone>'s suggestion.
>
> - allow the #rub command to apply to gray stones
> - update various doc & help files to reflect the change
>
> Committed to CVS.
