Requesting a lookup of "arc ranks" or "wizard ranks" will show a
list of the rank titles and the experience levels that use them
for the specified role. Looking up a specific rank title such
as "curator" works for many of them, but some such as "wizard"
already match existing entries and continue to do so. There is
just a bare list of the titles with the levels they apply to, no
attempt at flavor text.
Also, add a lookup key for "novel" and "paperback book" which
have been yielding the "no match" result. It lists all 41 of
the Discworld titles. Again, just a bare list, no added flavor.
These all look ok on tty, curses, Qt (which watches for any line
containing four consecutive spaces while collecting the text to
be displayed and switches to fixed-width font if it is sees that),
and X11 (which specifies fixed-width font for popup text windows
in default NetHack.ad file). It might not look good on Windows
GUI if that is using a proportional font.
Add some missing monster types for the recent male/female/neuter
name split. "vampire lady" was missing but getting false hit on
"*lady, offler" entry for Discworld's Lady Luck, aka The Lady,
goddess, god. "{dwarf,gnome,kobold} lady" got the corresponding
"{dwarf,gnome,kobold}" entry but "ogre lady" got "Lady Luck"; all
wildcard matches that are affected by their ordering in the file.
The pull request adopted yesterday added "battle axe" but it was
missing a hyphen so didn't match. I've fixed that and moved it
from the generic "weapon" entry to the more specific "axe" one.
I accidentally omitted the addition of "luckstone" but since the
luck quote is about bad luck, having it match that would be too
misleading for novice players so am now intentionally omitting it.
Improves the consistency of quote citations. Mostly by adding
missing commas but there are a handful or more substantial
corrections.
Pull request changed one "G.K. Chesterton" to "G. K. Chesterton"
but I went the other way. There are roughly 60 citations with
two or three initials, and about 50 omit the space, only 10-ish
included it. I changed those to match the rest. It's slightly
less visual clutter when reading an entry.
Also adds some new keys that previously had no entry to now match
some existing entries.
I added various comments and also inserted a few blank lines to
separate paragraphs but made no attempt to be thorough about that.
Fixes#472
Let ki-rin cure themselves (of being stunned, confused, or blinded)
with their own horn, and make them be poison resistant. They
aren't unicorns but their horn is very much like a unicorn horn.
They're flagged no-corpse so this hasn't changed them to leave
behind a horn upon death.
They were flagged as animals who neighed but they are also spell
casters. I took the animal flag off (they're still no-hands so
shouldn't be able to use items; also, unicorns aren't flagged as
animals either) and changed sound to 'ms_spell'.
Displacer beast and genetic engineer lacked data.base entries so
I've made a couple up from thin air. I tried to look up "genetic
engineering" in _the_Concise_Dictionary_of_Biology_ (after seeing
that the quantum mechanic quote comes from _Concise_Dictionary_of_
_Physics_) but could only view the first sentence so don't know
whether it had anything more useful. I also skipped the AD&D
Monster Manual for displacer beast except for remembering the
puma-like bit from previously checking it. So regardless of any
old copyright issues in data.base, there shouldn't be any new ones.
A quote about "winning team" doesn't fit nethack very well but this
is too good to pass up. I considered adding "/Rule Six/" as a false
rumor, but the rumors don't offer any way to specify attribution.
Also, give full attribution for another Douglas Adams quote that's
used for a random ungraving.
The phrasing of the data.base entry for the Eyes of the Overworld
reads as if it is continuing some passage in a reference book, but
that comes off strange when using '/' to see it. Rephrase it.
data.base could stand to have an entry for 'lenses'....
The comment I added to data.base--to explain that despite what the
short description says, an aklys wouldn't return to sender after being
thrown--was bugging me, so I've made aklyses behave like Mjollnir.
If thrown when wielded as primary weapon, it will usually return and
usually be re-wielded. I also added a new message when either thrown
Mjollnir or thrown aklys is expected to return and fails to do so.
Most of the diff to dothrow.c is a change in indentation level. The
amount of code needed was quite small.
Autopickup for thrown Mjollnir which had failed to return was putting
it into the quiver slot if that was empty. Note quite an outright bug,
but it started wielded and can't be thrown if quivered, so exclude it
from the stuff that will auto-fill the quiver slot when added to invent
(post-3.6.0 issue).
Report indicated that looking up "more info?" for "kittens" would show
the data.base entry for "kitten" and then when the display window was
dismissed, another "--More--" prompt for a empty second display window
would occur. Looking up "2 arrows" from a closely-seen object on the
map behaved similarly. User correctly diagnosed that the two-pass
lookup left the 'found_in_file' flag set from the first pass during
the second but that just clearing that resulted in "I have no info
about such things" on the second pass. The code is on the convoluted
side and needed an extra flag to handle 'seen on first pass' in
addition to clearing found flag after the first pass. I also added a
check to skip the second display if primary and secondary keys don't
match each other but both find the same entry. To test it, I tried
"a +0 aklys named aclys". That found the aclys entry but failed to
find "+0 aklys", so I added another change to have the key massaging
remove +/-N after removing "a", "an", or "the".
If "Want to see more info \"" + lookup string + "\"?" was too long,
the prompt buffer passed to yn() was being left uninitialized. Also,
test for too long was based on BUFSZ but yn() complains (to paniclog)
if the prompt is longer than QBUFSZ. Make checkfile() construct a
truncated prompt if the lookup string is too long.
I untangled some spaghetti by making all the 'goto's be forward. It
didn't help a lot but did simplify a few early returns by having them
jump to a common exit instead of replicating the file close.
Change description of area outside of the swallow animation from
"interior of a monster" to "unreconnoitered". For the animation
characters themselves, don't suppress the list of other screen
features which use the same character ('/' for wand and so on).
Add a data.base entry for "unreconnoitered" in case someone tries
to use it to look up an unfamiliar term.
Give all the attribution lines more indentation than a single tab so
that they never line up exactly the same as the text which precedes them.
Combine some attribution lines that had been split across two or three
lines but could reasonably fit on one or two.
Include a second boomerang quote from Pratchett--currently commented out
since the first boomerang quote is also from him.
I didn't find Michael's crasher, but I did find a couple of minor
problems:
knight's saddled pony wasn't found in the file lookup either though
there is an entry for pony ("tame saddled <foo>" stripped off "tame "
but not "saddled "; "saddled <foo>" would only be found of there was
a wildcard entry key of "*<foo>", like "*horse" to catch both horse
and warhorse);
"wombat" matched the bat entry rather than reporting an unknown
entity.
On 1/24/2014 6:48 AM, a bug reporter wrote:
> The whistle in Nethack has no encyclopedia entry. I suggest for the next
> release something from the M. R. James ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come
> to You My Lad'.
>
-"bat" overrode later "combat" entry.
-"gelatinous cube" and "jack boot" have their own entries.
-"vampire bat" matched twice; use the bat entry.
-dagger attribution started with spaces instead of tabs.
From a bug report, the entry
in data.base for towel repeated the word "down" in the quote from Douglas
Adams' _The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_. I double checked the book
itself to verify that the quote shouldn't say "down down".
