I can't figure out how to make PuTTY use the Alt key to function as
a Meta key and set a character's high bit, so I used this hack to test
the M-5 fix just committed. This lets me specify a character to be used
to force the next character to have its high bit set, so I can fake the
Meta key with a two character sequence. (I used the back-tick/accent,
since nethack doesn't do anything special with it.) Conceivably something
like this should be promoted to the core; this just affects VMS, and only
when vmstty.c is compiled with DEBUG defined.
NOSAVEONHANGUP isn't documented anywhere. I don't see why it should
wipe out recoverable level files just because it doesn't want to build a
save file out of them during the hangup. Leave them intact if checkpoint
is active. If someone really wants to make them always go away, they'll
need to disable INSURANCE as well as enable NOSAVEONHANGUP.
tty's getret() -> xwaitforspace() could get stuck in a loop after
hangup, depending upon the state of terminal shutdown (accepting EOF or
ESC cares about cbreak mode?). Make xwaitforspace() become a no-op during
hangup processing.
vms's call to hangup() from an exit handler took place after the
terminal has been reset (the exit handler for the latter is registered
later so executes sooner). Then exit_nhwindows() resulted in a second tty
reset attempt and settty() -> setctty() encountered an error (which it
reported, triggeting a getret() call). Make the vms code correctly guard
against multiple resets.
Prevent the pardoning of trickery in wizard mode from attempting
to continue when there's no longer any current level. Also prevent
the ZEROCOMP configuration from trying to read from file descriptor -1
in case there're any other places which still let that slip through.
And fix an oddity in the VMS port's error() routine which has gone
unnoticed for years.
