Short for distu(mtmp->mx, mtmp->my) (i.e. the distance between the hero
and the specified monster), which is a very common use of distu(). The
idea is that this would be a convenient shorthand for it; I actually
thought it (or something very similar) existed already, but couldn't
find it when I tried to use it earlier. Based on the number of uses of
fully-spelled-out 'distu(mtmp->mx, mtmp->my)' replaced in this commit
I'm guessing I just imagined it.
"A dry rattle comes from its throat" would be printed whenever a
canceled monster tried to spit at you or another monster while not in
the hero's line of sight. That seemed weird to me: you can't see the
monster and don't know what it is, but you can tell the sound is
definitely coming from "its throat".
Change the message if the monster isn't visible, and make sure it's
printed it only if the monster is nearby (within reasonable hearing
range for a "dry rattle").
Instead of using a compile-time macro to suppress inclusion of the
menu entry to show UNIX command-line usage in the help menu, use a
sysconf setting instead.
Default is HIDEUSAGE=0, to include the entry for command-line usage.
Set HIDEUSAGE=1 to exclude that. Does not affect 'nethack --usage'
if player actually has access to the command-line.
Write up a description of how the command line works on UNIX and put
that in new file dat/usagehlp. Add support for
|nethack --usage | --help | -? | ?
to display it and exit.
Also add a menu entry for nethack's help command to show it during
play. That can be suppressed by uncommenting new '#define HIDE_USAGE'
in config.h since it won't be useful on servers that don't give
players access to command lines.
New genl_display_file() just writes to stdout. opt_usage(), which
calls it, might need some suid/sgid handling to make sure the output
is done as the player rather than as nethack.
doc/nethack.6 is already out of date again.
For nethack -s name1 [name2 [name3]]
allow any or all of the name arguments to be preceded by -u. Both
'-u name1' and '-uname2' forms are accepted same as when specifying
character name at start of play.
It has been accepting '-s<anything>' and ignoring the <anything>.
Treat such as a separate argument instead. That means it will accept
'-s-v' which is silly but if used intentionally, <anything> would most
likely be a name.
'nethack -s' without any character name(s) supplied and PERS_IS_UID
set to 0 now defaults to "all" instead of to "hackplayer". For Unix,
the default name will be in place, so that gets used instead of "all".
'nethack -s all' or 'nethack -s -u all' can be used to see all scores.
When no matches are found, feedback is a full sentence but terminating
punctuation was omitted except for the special case of "Cannot find
any entries for you." Add the final period all the time.
For Unix, set plname[] to the default value (player's username)
before running prscore() for 'nethack -s'. Avoids reference to
mysterious "hackplayer" if no entries are found.
Add -w|--windowtype.
Also --scores and --directory as recognized variations of -s and -d.
Add -@. The existing description of '-p @' seems to be inaccurate,
and random role but still having to supply race+gender+alignment
isn't very useful anyway. The bit about maybe needing to quote @ with
backslash might still be useful if moved to -@ though.
Add -A|-Arc -B|-Bar ... -W|Wiz since they hadn't been listed. I put
them on their own line instead of cluttering up the main program
invocation even further.
Move '-u character-name' before '-D' since that order matters on some
platforms.
Move --showpaths and --version to a separate command invocation since
combining them with any other stuff ends up ignoring that other stuff.
I didn't add --dumpenums.
The description of config file name and location under '-dec and -ibm'
is out of date, particularly for Windows.
1. remove all window interface bits from compiler.370, and have
the preceding include files set some variables to control
the behavior of compiler.370 when it comes to c++.
2. some more common Makefile lines into sys/unix/hints/include/multiw-3.370.
3. make it so you can pass cppregex=1 on the Make command line to build with
sys/share/cppregex.cpp instead of posixregex.c
4. fix sys/share/cppregex.cpp so that it will build with clang compiler
(required an additional header include). I don't know if it would have
worked with g++ without that change. The include can be placed into an #ifdef
block if there's an issue with the change on other compilers.
5. Anything that needs to compile using c++ (Qt, sys/share/cppregex.cpp) can
just ensure that CPLUSPLUS_NEEDED Makefile variable is set above the lines
in compiler.370 to ensure that things get set up for c++. It no longer
checks specifically for Qt. That is what sys/unix/hints/include/multiw-2.370
does now.
Reset 'x_inited' after the various widgets have been released
during shutdown.
This might prevent the second panic ('X11_mark_synch()' during
emergency save) in the double panic reported in a later comment of
github issue #569. It definitely doesn't address whatever caused
the first panic, nor the poor handling of missing fonts that was
apparently responsible for #569's initial report.
Add a 3rd multi-window include file that comes after compiler.370.
Relocate a small section of Makefile lines common to both macOS.370
and linux.370 to multiw-3.370.
Also relocate a section near the tail of compiler.370 that really
has nothing to do with compilers or compiler flags, but was
related to Qt which is one of the supported multi-window interfaces.
Condense the setup of PCHAR/PCHAR2 and OBJCLASS/OBJCLASS2 (last one
renamed from OBJCLASS7) so that it's easier to see the variations
at once on an ordinary size terminal/window. Revise some of the
indentation and other spacing, also to try to enhance readability
a little.
Unrelated: remove a trailing space that crept in with a recent pull
request.
As far as I know, there's no such thing as WIN32_GRAPHICS in the
current source tree. The Windows graphical port uses the preprocessor
macro MSWIN_GRAPHICS.
Some recent testing with a multi-platform compiler encountered difficulty
with the use of a variable 'near' (and presumably 'far', but we don't have
any of those in the source tree) due to reserved word extensions.
Avoid using that as a variable name.
Now, the only usage of GCC_WARN is for the guard of PRINTF_F in wincurs.h.
This guard can be removed safely, as PRINTF_F is already used unconditionally in extern.h.
Permit levelport by name to "delphi". That is what the Oracle calls the
level (or at least her room) in-game, so it seems like a natural guess
for the name of the level.
We don't know at compile time whether the X server even supports
Unicode. So take the configured map font, change the registry to
ISO10646 and try the resulting font string. Keep the configured
font if that doesn't work.
Older X servers don't understand "Fuchsia," and NetHack throws
impossibles as a result. The current Xorg defines "magenta" as the
same color as "Fuchsia," namely #FF00FF, and older X servers
understand "magenta."
The resulting X11 NetHack is known to work with XFree86 4.2.0.
The minimum version remains undetermined.
GCCs older than 3.1 understand __attribute__(printf(...)), but only
with functions; it doesn't work with function pointers. This change
uses PRINTF_F_PTR to remove the attribute from two function pointers.
This change establishes GCC 3.0 as the minimum version to build
NetHack. Older versions have trouble with the variadic macros and
variable declarations in mid-block.
