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- include new 3.6.0 beta testers in dungeoneers list
MSGTYPE allows the user to define how messages in the message
area behave. For example:
MSGTYPE=stop "You swap places with "
would always make that message prompt for -more-. Allowed types
are "show" (normal message), "hide" (do not show), "stop" (wait
for user), and "norep" (do not repeat message).
Adding this, because it's relatively simple, proven to work, and
it seemed to be the major thing betatesters felt was lacking when
compared to NAO.
The option defaults to on, which is the old-style behaviour.
Turning the option off will never omit the "uncursed" -status
from inventory lines. This is pretty much required if users
want to use menucolors based on the BUC state.
Allow the 'I' command to show inventory of known blessed items via
pseudo object classes B, C, U, and X. That's instead of an showing
inventory of specific object class. The two can't be combined
because 'I' operates on single character input.
I had to modify tty_yn_function to prevent it from forcing a BUCX
character into lower case (simply using lower case would cause a
conflict with 'u' and 'x' for inventory of shopping bill), and did
that by checking whether any of the acceptable response characters
are upper case. Pretty straightforward and shouldn't impact any
other uses that don't specify upper case choices.
I did the same thing for X11. Other interfaces most likely need
to do something similar. If they don't, a response of 'B' or 'C'
(for menustyle:traditional or menustyle:combination) will simply
not work, without causing any problems, same as typing an invalid
choice, and 'U' or 'X' will give shop feedback instead of the
requested subset of inventory.
The Guidebook revisions are untested.
Adds the "sortloot" compound option, with possible values
of "none", "loot", or "full". It controls the sorting of
item pickup lists for inventory and looting.
For those pro players who really want to try their hand
at that zen samurai, without needing to reroll thousands
of times to start with blindfold. Nudist starts without
any armor, and keeps tabs whether you wore any during
the game, for even more bragging rights.
Also makes the Book of the Dead readable even while
blind, for obvious reasons.
This is Michael Deutschmann's use_darkgray -patch.
Adds a boolean option use_darkgray, settable in config file.
This patch has been in use on NAO for years, and I have heard
once someone say their terminal didn't support the dark gray
color.
Add 'o' to "i a v g c" disclosure set, to display final dungeon
overview at end of game. It lists all levels visited rather than just
those that #overview considers to be interesting, but it doesn't reveal
any undiscovered aspects of those levels except for the presence of bones.
(I think revealing shops and altars and such would be worthwhile, but the
data for that isn't handy at the time.) If the game ends due to death,
the bones section of the current level will have "you, <reason you died>"
(before any real bones entries for that level). That occurs before bones
file creation so it doesn't give away whether bones are being saved.
end.c includes some unrelated lint cleanup.
Guidebook.{mn,tex} updates the section for autopickup_exceptions as
well as for disclose. It had some odd looking indentation due to various
explicit paragraph breaks. I took "experimental" out of its description
since it was moved out of the experimental section of config.h long ago.
The revised Guidebook.tex is untested.
Change the post-3.4.3 extended command "#terrain" so that it can be
used in normal play rather than just in wizard mode. It's inspired by
a command in 'crawl' that lets you view the bare map without monsters,
objects, and traps so that you can see the floor at locations which have
been covered up by those things.
normal play
redraw map to show the known portion of it without displaying
monsters, objects, or traps; after player responds to --More--, the
map returns to normal.
explore mode
put up a menu so player can choose between the known portion of
the map as above or the full map. If the level isn't fully explored
then the latter provides information to the player that he hasn't
earned yet, but the _hero_ doesn't learn anything and after --More--
the map reverts to what it showed before. (In other words, unlike
with magic mapping, the unknown portion doesn't become known.)
wizard mode
put up a menu so player can choose among four alternatives: the
two above, the text representation of the map's internal levl[][].typ
codes, or a legend explaining those codes. (Originally, I wanted to
be able to toggle back and forth between these last two, but looking
at one and dismissing it, then reissuing #terrain to look at the
other is much simpler to implement and is good enough.)
My #terrain patch had a typo on the command line and was going
to include doc/fixes35.0 as the log text for a half-dozen files. I
aborted the commit but most of them had already made it into the cvs
repository. This reverts those changes so that the entire patch can
be re-comitted with the right log text. Ugh...
