Another issue from old beta-tester mail: #annotate and #overview were
missing from the list of extended commands. M-A and M-O were listed
but marked "(if supported)" even though they've become unconditional.
Same for M-R, although in its case #ride wasn't missing.
Some old beta-tester mail suggested mentioning the implicit_uncursed
option in the "Curses and Blessings" section; this patch does that.
It also mentions that option in the "Configuring Menu Colors" section
since anyone trying to specify a color for " uncursed " will want
objects to be explicitly described as "uncursed".
The changes to the LaTeX version haven't been tested. The generated
plain text version has a lot of spurious changes due to the padding
method it uses to right-justify short lines.
Allow 'P' and 'R' commands to accept armor and wear/take-off the chosen
item, and 'W' and 'T' commands to accept accessories and put-on/remove
the item. The which-object prompt only lists the type(s) of items that
traditionally go with each command, as does an inventory menu if the
user picks '?', but items of the alternate type(s) can be chosen, by
unshown letter or by the inventory menu given for '*'.
There shouldn't be much difference if you continue picking items that
go with the original commands, although you will somestimes get
"which object? [*]" when the only choices are for alternate command.
And you won't see the all-four-accessories-are-already-worn message
for 'P' unless you also have something worn in all seven armor slots.
The Guidebook.mn changes have been tested (that's how/why I noticed
the preface glitch) but the corresponding Guidebook.tex ones haven't.
Changes to be committed:
modified: dat/history
modified: doc/Guidebook.mn
modified: doc/Guidebook.tex
- 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.
