When a female dwarf grows (via level gain) into a dwarf lord, it
changes sex as well as base monster form because all dwarf lords
are male. The earlier fix for #H4276 (16-Mar-2016, to give an
alternate grow-up message acknowledging the change) used the wrong
monster form (monst's old one instead of new one).
Fix a couple of typos, change one entry which referenced internal
coding issues to a more general description for end-users, and remove
a duplicate about color handling for status hilites and menucolors.
(I've only skimmed through the first section. There are likely more
inconsistencies in the file.)
"They say that an ooze will bite your boots and a rockmole will eat them."
'rockmole' should be two words. Also, rock moles won't eat leather
boots, so change 'will eat' to 'might eat'.
Back when dead green slime left a corpse, gelatinous cubes wouldn't
eat that, but they would eat globs of green slime without being
affected. Add the missing glob check so g.cubes will engulf globs
of green slime instead of eating those.
Bug report was:
> "Completed sokoban" achievement was logged when picking up
> a randomly generated bag of holding in the gnomish mines.
The picking-up code was missing checks for the branches, so
you could get the achievements outside the correct branches.
Apparently some screen readers keep reading the status lines
at the bottom of the screen when parts of those change.
Add an option to prevent updates to those lines.
For "the poison was deadly" against hero, hit points were set to -1
(which gets displayed as 0 when shown) but the status lines weren't
being updated, so stale positive HP value was visible during final
disclosure.
Adds two new configurable keys to the cursor targeting: 'A' (getpos.menu)
and 'a' (getpos.menu.cansee). First one shows a menu of all interesting
glyphs on the map, second one shows only those in sight.
Travel command also now obeys the "request menu" -prefix, showing
the menu with interesting targets in sight, and then traveling there.
Idea via the NetHack accessibility research by Alexei Pepers.
This is a modified version of Jason Dorje Short's key rebinding
patch, and allows also binding special keys, such as the ones
used in getloc and getpos.
One of the ways to play NetHack on nethack.alt.org is via a HTML
terminal in browser. Unfortunately this means several ctrl-key
combinations cannot be entered, because the browser intercepts
those. Similar thing applies to some international keyboard layouts
on Windows. With this patch, the user can just rebind the command
to a key that works best for them.
I've tested this on Linux TTY, X11, and Windows TTY and GUI.
With menustyle set to "full" or "partial", using 'D' when not
carrying anything gave no feedback. (Modes "traditional" and
"combination" give "you have nothing to drop" via ggetobj().)
Also, there's no need to reset in-progress armor removal, lock
picking, or trap setting if you don't actually drop anything.
The inventory they're set to operate on or with stays intact.
Yet another accessibility feature. When asked for a location
to travel, and autodescribe is on, the location description
has "(no travel path)" appended, if there is no known path
to that location.
