Add /tune/ to the achievement section of the Guidebook.
The 'note' part is a bit of a spoiler and risks making the prayer
boon of "Hark! To enter the castle you must play the right tune."
redundant for players who actually read the Guidebook (so hardly
anybody). Since that's the first stage of a two-stage reward I've
left it alone.
In the name of accessibility: Prevent moving into dangerous liquids.
Now with themed rooms, water and lava are more common, and it's
unreasonable to expect blind players to check every step for those.
With paranoid:swim, just prevent normal walking into those liquids,
unless you prefix the movement with 'm', or if the liquid would not
harm you.
Doesn't completely prevent an accidental dunking - for example
if the hero is impaired or couldn't see the liquid.
This comes from xNetHack by copperwater <aosdict@gmail.com>
with some changes to the code.
Changes most of the special keys used in the main input loop
into extended commands:
- movement keys are now bound to extended commands, eg.
#movewest and so on.
- m-prefix is now #reqmenu extended command, still bound to
the 'm' key.
- run, rush, and fight are now extended commands, still bound
to the same keys as previously.
- nopickup and runnopickup keys are removed.
Nopickup was using 'm' key, the same as the m-prefix, so
allow #reqmenu to modify movement commands to disable pickup.
- multiple prefix commands are allowed. This lets user to
use #reqmenu, followed by #run, followed by movement to simulate
runnopickup behaviour. (If necessary, adding runnopickup back
as an extended command would be easy)
Wield a polearm and use 'f'ire to automatically hit with it,
if there's a single valid target.
With fireassist-option, will swapweapon to a polearm.
This only applies if quiver is empty and autoquiver is off.
Incorporate the functionality of the loadable DLL's (nhraykey.dll,
nhdefkey.dll, and nh340key.dll) into the consoletty.c code and
remove the dll building
Describe the new feature of m<dir> making it feasible to move to a
boulder'd spot without pushing. Giving specific information among
vague descriptions is awkward....
While in there, move a handful of sentences to separate lines as per
the 'roff guidelines. I did the same for Guidebook.tex even though
it's not needed there, to try to keep things parallel.
Use a slightly more meaningful name for each one rather than
a sequential numerical name.
S_explode1 to S_expl_tl
S_explode2 to S_expl_tc
S_explode3 to S_expl_tr
S_explode4 to S_expl_ml
S_explode5 to S_expl_mc
S_explode6 to S_expl_mr
S_explode7 to S_expl_bl
S_explode8 to S_expl_bc
S_explode9 to S_expl_br
When using a menu to drop or put in items into a container,
allow putting in the item (or items) you picked up previously,
by selecting the 'P' entry from the item class menu
Inspired by the itemcat patch by Stanislav Traykov.
Invalidates saves and bones.
Describe #wizdetect as revealing hidden things rather than searching
for hidden things since the latter is described more than once as
possibly needing multiple tries.
For plain text output, the "Rooms and corridors" section header was
harder than necessary to notice because it seemed to run together
with the list of commands preceding it.
|
| u #untrap
|
| 5. Rooms and corridors
|
Inserting an extra blank line in between them is helpful. That isn't
needed for Postscript/PDF output because the text of the section
title is rendered with bold font, but I didn't attempt to make the
extra line be conditional. The 'roff directive is added as a comment
to the TeX source without knowing whether an extra blank line would
be useful there (doubtful).
Different color for stairs that go to another dungeon branch.
Adds four new glyphs, S_br{up,dn}{stair,ladder}, which use the
same character as normal stairs/ladders, but yellow color.
In tiles, the up/down arrow is yellow-green instead of while-blue.
This feature has been around a lot and is in several different
variants, but this is implemented from scratch so tiles work too.
Allows the fire-command to autowield a launcher; it will now
do either swapweapon or wield an appropriate launcher, if you
have ammo quivered.
This assistance can be turned off with the fireassist boolean option.
Adds a rudimentary command queue, which allows the code to add keys
or extended commands into the queue, and they're executed as if
the user did them. Time passes normally when doing the queue,
and the queue will get cleared if hero is interrupted.
Change the default value of autopickup to off. Having it on is
harmful for new players, making them very easily burdened.
We can't expect new players to know how to configure
pickup_types, pickup_burden, and pickup exceptions.
Change the default value of color to on. We can safely assume
new users have a terminal that supports color, and most people
want color.
Quit is not a commmand you usually need very often, and generally
don't want to use by accident.
Apparently, on Spanish keyboard layout, n-with-tilde is interpreted
by the Windows NetHack as M-q, and the key is next to l. Loot also
asks for confirmation, just like quit.
Prevent stuff like this by not binding the quit command to any key.
Adopt a feature mentioned in the xNetHack release announcement.
If you use the fire ('f') command when wielding a throw-and-return
weapon while your quiver is empty and the 'autoquiver' option is
Off, throw the wielded weapon instead of prompting to fill the
quiver. It will usually return and be re-wielded, so be ready to
fire again.
Implemented from scratch.
Guidebook.tex already uses mixed case for "Special Thanks"
but it put Dungeoneers into a new section--one on par with
Credits--rather than have that be a continuation of the
Special Thanks subsection. Split the difference: make
Dungeoneers be a second subsection of Credits in both.
Previous update added one change to Guidebook.tex which was omitted
from Guidebook.mn, so catch up.
Don't try to list the interfaces or ports which support each menu
command key. Just have a generic "not every command is implemented
by every interface" instead.
Flesh out the one sentence menu_search description.
Update an example which shows changing menu_first_page to '{' now
that '{' has a default use for something else (menu_shift_left).
Since 'menu_first_page:^' is the opposite of 'menu_last_page:|' and
'\' shares the same key as '|' with opposite shift state, switch
the example to 'menu_first_page:\'.
Interaction with persistent inventory window was documented for
the '|' key a week ago but nothing was specified for '#perminv'.
menu_shift_left and menu_shift_right for X11 are now explicitly
for the perm_invent menu only.
Add new '|' command, aka #perminv, which allows the player to
send menu scrolling keystrokes to the persistent inventory window.
Implemented for X11, where its usefulness is limited, and for
curses, where it is more needed and also more fully functional.
The interface can either prompt for one keystroke, act upon it,
and return to normal play, or it can loop for multiple keystrokes
until player types <return> or <escape>. X11 does the former if
the 'slow' application resource is False so that prompting uses
popups, and the latter when 'slow' is True where prompting is in
a fixed spot and doesn't end up causing the persistent inventory
window to be stacked behind the map window. curses always does
the loop-until-done approach. It also accepts up and down arrow
keys to scroll one line at a time.
Also adds two new menu scrolling commands, menu_shift_right (key
'}' by default) and menu_shift_left ('{') if wincap2 flags contain
WC2_MENU_SHIFT. Shifting allows different substrings of too-long
lines to be seen.
For X11, neither works because their handling requires a horizontal
scrollbar and for some reason that escapes me our menus don't have
one of those. If they did, shifts could work for all menus but a
shifted window would hide the selection letters. So shifting would
be most usefully done as: pan right, read more of any long lines,
immediately pan back to the left.
For curses, they only apply to the persistent inventory window.
Shift right redraws it with class headers and inventory letters
shown normally but the item descriptions omit their leftmost
portion, showing more text towards the end. Shift left reverses
that and does nothing if the beginning is already in view. Forward
and backward scrolling while shifted leave the shift in place.
Under curses interface, provide a way to get a little more space
for perm_invent without turning off windowborders entirely.
Possible 'windowborders' values:
0 = no borders, max screen space available for useful info
1 = full borders, two lines and two columns wasted for each window
2 = contingent borders, show if screen is big enough, else hide
New:
3 = as 1 except no borders for perm_invent window
4 = as 2 except never borders for perm_invent window
3 and 4 let the map, message, and status windows have borders while
providing two extra lines and two extra columns on each line for
persistent inventory. It's not much but better than nothing when
borders are enabled.
Document m\ and m`.
Several years ago there was a suggestion--aka complaint--that
"menustyle:Traditional was the only alternative for early versions"
was too vague and requested that the version be included. It was
probably accurate at the time it was included, but I've changed it
from "early versions" to "very early versions" now. :-}
Another one from several years ago. Document 'pickup_types:.'
as a way to set pickup_types to a value that won't ever cause
anything to be picked up, in order to leave all autopickup
decisions to player's autopickup exceptions.
Actually implementing pickup_types:none would require just as
much documentation plus extra code.
Turns out it was nearly as simple as I originally thought.
I just missed one significant detail the first time around.
This leaves DYNAMIC_STATUSLINES as conditionl but now enables
it by default. Using 'O' to change 'statuslines' from 2 to 3
or vice versa now works for Qt as well as for curses and tty.
The pull request changed \ and ` output to unconditionally show
discoveries in alphabetical order. That's nearly useless except
when looking at prediscovered weapons and armor that fighter
types start out knowing.
This allows the player to choose sorting order via the new
'sortdiscoveries' option. In addition to setting it via
config file or 'O', it can be set via 'm' prefix for \ and `.
Choices are:
o - sort by class, by order of discovery in class (default);
s - sort by 'sortloot' classification which groups sub-class
items (so all helmets before any other armor, then all
gloves, then boots, and so on); within each sub-class, or
whole class for classes which don't subdivide so usefully,
partly-discovered types (where a name has been assigned)
come before fully ID'd types;
c - sort by class, alphabetically within class;
a - sort alphabetically across all classes.
Turned out to be a large amount of work for fairly little gain,
although I suspect that 'sortdiscoveries:s' will eventually be
more popular than the default.
Invalidates existing save files so that current sort setting can
persist across save/restore cycles.
Closes#334
'? i' shows three keyless commands in the General section. This
makes M-X the key for #exploremode. #herecmdmenu and #therecmdmenu
are still keyless but now autocomplete.
A ridiculous amount of documentation for a three line code change.
Having recently noticed that using <del> aka <delete> aka <rubout>
could work as a command, assign it to #terrain. #terrain was the
only command in the "game" subset of commands as shown by '? i'
that didn't have any key assignment.
Since <delete> might be swapped with <backspace> on some terminals
and is a keypad key on the typical PC keyboard, it might not work
reliably depending on nethack's number_pad mode or the hardware
Num-Lock setting. Players in either of those situations haven't
lost anything; they can still use extended command #terrain.
The command rename "#seegold" to "#showgold" that also revised
a few of the short command desctipions didn't include a Guidebook
update. So here one is.
Noticed while working on Qt's extended command handling, there
are an awful lot of "seeXYZ" commands. Keep the inventory display
ones (named versions of ')' to show wielded weapon(s), '[' for
worn armor, '"' for worn amulet, &c) and rename the others:
| #seenv -> #wizseenv debugging command
| #seespells -> #showspells '+' command
| #seetrap -> #showtrap '^' command
Also, expand the descriptions of #shell and #suspend a bit in
the Guidebook. LaTeX version is untested.
