This started out as an attempt to document the curses options in the
Guidebook, but I didn't actually get that far. Instead, integrate
the curses options better via more consistent WC/WC2 usage. This
prevents 'guicolor' from showing up as a boolean option for non-curses
interface in curses+other binary.
For curses itself, let 'petattr' be set/reset via 'O'. Also, accept
'Dim' as a possible pet highlight attribute since it already handles
all the other ordinary attributes. I'm not sure what leftline and
rightline highlighting are supposed to do. They were missing for
ncurses (or maybe they're misspelled for PDcurses?) but adding them
didn't produce any visible effect (using TERM=xterm-256color on OSX
with default font/character set).
Not addressed:
1) general confusion about compile-time vs run-time option filtering;
2) curses pet highlighting only works if 'color' option is enabled.
Three or four instances of one simple memory leak. Allocating a union
'anything' to pass to add_menu(), then not doing anything with it. The
value gets copied so there's no reason for the original to stick around.
[There are still lots of other memory leaks.]
There was no provision for malloc() potentially returning Null and it
wasn't integrated with nethack's MONITOR_HEAP. 'heaputil' shows that
the curses interface is leaking like a sieve. If some things are
actually being allocated separately and then freed from within curses,
those need to be thoroughly documented and maybe switched back to
malloc().
The curses interface already has a hack to keep 'Count: 12', 'Count:
123' intermediate multi-digit counts out of its message recall history
for ^P, but it was flushing real messages when getpos()'s 'autodescribe'
reported what the cursor moved over. Overload the count hack to support
putstr(WIN_MESSAGE, ATR_NOHISTORY, text)
(which is what custompline(SUPPRESS_HISTORY, ...) eventually calls).
The conditional logic for when to create the 'count_window' was pretty
convoluted. This simplification has the same semantics but I don't
have PDCURSES to actually verify that.