Have the 'menucolors' option control menu color pattern matching
(instead of curses-specific 'guicolor') for all menus, not just for
the persistent inventory window.
Commit e3af33c9db in June changed
curses handling for perm_invent to strip off doname()'s "a ", "an ",
or "the " prefix in order to shorten inventory entries and get a
couple of significant extra characters before end-of-line truncation.
That had an unintended impact on menu colors pattern matching for
patterns which expected the article prefix. Do the matching before
stripping off the prefix instead of after so that the matching gives
the same results as when used on a normal inventory menu (even though
this means that from the user's perspective most perm_invent entries
will have invisible text at the start).
Also for menu colors, don't require curses-specific 'guicolor' option
be enabled when the general, more-specific 'menucolors' option exists
to control menu coloring. (curses was requiring that both be True.)
I noticed the wrapping issue while testing out the 'bad fruit' fix,
then the other things while fixing it.
1) inventory entries too wide for narrow persistent inventory window
wrapped without any control; normally can't be seen except for the
last entry when the list is short enough to leave at least one line
available; it looked fairly reasonable with window borders Off, but
when On the last char of the first line and first char of second
line were clobbered by the border box;
2) when there were too many entries to fit within the height, those
after the last one which fit were appended to it for borders Off
(or written on bottom line and then overwritten by the border box
for borders On); noticed because the selector letter is highlighted
with inverse video, even when written at an unexpected place;
3) suppress the inverse video hightlighting of inventory letters since
they can't be selected from that 'menu';
4) for borders Off, the top line was left blank as if a border was
going to be drawn there;
5) since the entries are truncated due to the narrow window (on a
modest sized display), strip off leading "a", "an", or "the" prefix
for inventory entries (written to curses perm_invent window only);
lets a couple more characters of more interesting stuff be seen.
Miscellaenous stuff either groundwork for or noticed while updating
curses status. The status changes themselves need some more testing.
One or two of the comments refer to that revised status which hasn't
been checked in yet.
Back out '#include "date.h"' so that cursinit.c won't be recompiled
every time any other file(s) need to be compiled. It doesn't need
patchlevel.h either. There is already a straightforward way to fetch
the copyright banner lines from version.c.
The splash screen (ascii art spelling "NetHack" preceding the normal
copyright lines) was invisible when showing white text on white-ish
background. Make it honor !guicolor.
"Shall I pick a character's role, race, gender and alignment for you?
[ynaq] (y) " was too wide to accept the answer on the same line on
an 80-column display so "(y) " was placed on the second line. That's
constructed in the core; change the construction to omit " a" when
using "character" rather than a role name. (tty shortens it by omitting
the default " (y)"; with " a" gone, it could revert to normal prompt.)
Also a bit of lint cleanup and some reformatting of cursinit.c....
The inventory window used a line to say "Inventory:", which is pretty
useless, and that was the only window showing such a label.
Also don't duplicate the "Not carrying anything" text from core.
