Remove trailing spaces from doc/fixes36.1 (only a couple),
doc/Guidebook.mn (several), and doc/Guidebook.tex (many). I re-split
some lines made wider by embedded formatting directives, but tried to
avoid getting carried away with that.
I think I added one missing period to Guidebook.mn and one missing
comma to Guidebook.tex. Aside from that, they should format the same
as they did before this patch.
Make the suggested change that only adjusting something into its own
slot be the way to collect/merge compatible stacks with it, instead
of any #adjust without a split count. This removes the previous
special case for a count that matches the stack size. Having to
know the exact count was not a burden on the player, but being able
to move things around without merging with other stacks makes more
sense than the original behavior or the hack to work-around that
behavior.
The report stated that '#adjust a c' after '#adjust 1a b' moved all
the original 'a' to 'c' instead of leaving the one in 'b' alone.
That's true, but it is also the intended behavior. Splitting off
with a count explicitly avoids gathering compatible stacks (but
does merge into the destination if compatible, instead of swapping).
Moving a whole stack gathers compatible ones and puts the whole
merged group into the destination.
But that leaves a gap in functionality: there's no way to get the
don't-collect-other-stacks without splitting; there ought to be.
So, allow the player to specify full count to move a stack from one
slot to another without collecting compatible stacks (the behavior
when no count is given) or splitting (the behavior when count is
less than full amount). In the example above, if 'a' started with
5 doodads and had 4 left after splitting one to 'b', '#adjust 4a c'
will move those 4 (all of 'a') to 'c' without merging 'b' into them.
The method is a bit obscure but it's also something which doesn't
come up very often.
Add a new boolean option herecmd_menu. If this is on, and using
a windowport that supports mouse, clicking on your character pops
up a menu of actions doable in that location. Basically this is
nothing new, as almost all of the same actions were done before
on the mouse click.
You can also pop up the context menu with the #herecmdmenu
extended command
Turning the boolean option force_invmenu makes all the commands
that ask for an inventory item pop up a menu instead of asking
a text query. This should be much more friendlier to new
players, and is very useful for window ports on systems
with touch screens and no physical keyboard, such as cell phones.
Polymorph control gives the player a chance to accept or reject a form
change due to lycanthropy, but if it occurs during combat or movement
the player might type 'y' before realizing that the prompt is pending.
Provide a paranoid_confirmation setting for 'Were-change' to allow a
player to require "yes" instead of 'y' for that.
The existing setting 'wand' is renamed to 'wand-break' and now requires
at least two letters in the config file options instead of just 1. The
spelling of its synonym is changed from 'breakwand' to 'break-wand';
it can be shorted to as few as 2 letters (same as before) but if more
than 5 are present, the new dash is required.
Both 'wand-break' and 'Were-change' are placed before 'pray' in the 'O'
menu for paranoid_confirmation so that all the "yes" vs 'y' settings
are grouped together.
Bonus fixes:
Reverting from were-critter form to human (due to timeout) did not give
a player with polymorph control the option of remaining in creature
form; now it does.
The 'O' command's menu would not show "wand" (now "wand-break") in the
current value of paranoid_confirmation. (A post 3.6.0 issue, so no
fixes entry included.)
The revised Guidebook.mn has been tested; Guidebook.tex has not.
Allows the user to define arbitrarily named optional sections
in the config file, and select which of those sections are used.
For example:
OPTIONS=color
CHOOSE=char A,char B
[char A]
OPTIONS=role:arc,race:dwa,align:law,gender:fem
[char B]
OPTIONS=role:wiz,race:elf,align:cha,gender:mal
Previously the "fast-moving" when getting a target location
was always by 8 units. If this option is on, fast-moving
will instead skip the same map glyphs. This should be much more
useful for blind players.
Compound option whatis_filter, filters the eligible map locations
when getting a cursor location for targeting. Accepts 'n' (none),
'v' (map locations in view), or 'a' (map locations in the same area,
eg. room or corridor).
Report #5426 was classified as not-a-bug, but the underlying issue
can be improved.
For item selection where BUCX (bless/curse state) filtering is
supported (mostly for menustyle:Full, but there are a few actions
where Traditional and Combination handle BUCX too), 3.4.3 took the
union of object class and bless/curse state (so ?!B gave all scrolls
and all potions and every blessed item from other classes) but 3.6.0
changed that to the intersection (so ?!B gives blessed scrolls and
blessed potions, period). Since gold is inherently not blessed or
cursed it has been getting excluded during intersection handling
when that includes BUCX filtering. Report #5426 was from a player
who was used to choosing $X when putting newly acquired loot into a
container asking to have the old behavior reinstated.
The ideal fix would be to support both union ($ | X) and intersection
(?! & B), but implementation would be bug prone and the interface,
especially when done for menus, would be cumbersome. Instead, this
adds new boolean option, goldX, to allow the player to decide whether
gold is classified as uncursed--even though it is never described as
such--or unknown. The new-loot-into-container issued can be solved
either via $abcX, where abc lists all classes that have any X items
(when gold is included as one of the classes, its BUCX state is now
ignored for the current selection), or by setting the goldX option
and then just picking X for the types of items to put into the
container (or drop or whatever other action supports BUCX filtering).
The situations where menustyle:Full allows BUCX filtering during
object class specification and styles Traditional and Combination
don't should to be fixed (by extending BUCX support to Traditional
and Combination rather than removing it from Full, obviously).
Apparently some screen readers keep reading the status lines
at the bottom of the screen when parts of those change.
Add an option to prevent updates to those lines.
Adds two new configurable keys to the cursor targeting: 'A' (getpos.menu)
and 'a' (getpos.menu.cansee). First one shows a menu of all interesting
glyphs on the map, second one shows only those in sight.
Travel command also now obeys the "request menu" -prefix, showing
the menu with interesting targets in sight, and then traveling there.
Idea via the NetHack accessibility research by Alexei Pepers.
This is a modified version of Jason Dorje Short's key rebinding
patch, and allows also binding special keys, such as the ones
used in getloc and getpos.
One of the ways to play NetHack on nethack.alt.org is via a HTML
terminal in browser. Unfortunately this means several ctrl-key
combinations cannot be entered, because the browser intercepts
those. Similar thing applies to some international keyboard layouts
on Windows. With this patch, the user can just rebind the command
to a key that works best for them.
I've tested this on Linux TTY, X11, and Windows TTY and GUI.
Previous fix was 'me' to eat from inventory without checking current
location for edible items. The report describing the need for that
also mentioned that you could #loot while blind and without gloves
and not touch any objects except for the container you pick to loot.
This adds a corpse touch check, plus `m#loot' to skip floor containers
and go directly to using #loot for adjacent saddled creature. That,
as well as the open command, will reveal adjacent container in some
circumstances but I'm going to pretend that that doesn't matter.
doloot() has turned into spaghetti. We should probably add #unsaddle
or something of the sort and return #loot to container-access only.
Accept the 'm' prefix for eat, offer, and apply.
Allows 'me' to eat from inventory without checking for floor food.
Primarily for use after blind character used 'm<dir>' to move
somewhere without touching a suspected cockatrice corpse there.
'm#offer' and 'ma<let>' accomplish similar floor-object-skipping
when offering a sacrifice or applying a tinning-kit. (All three
commands share floorfood() to pick the item to use.)
Report suggested replacing pick-from-floor followed by pick-from-
invent with use of slash'em-style pick-from-invent with explicit
pick-from-floor choice in list of inventory letters "[abc or ,]"
(slash'em used period for 'here'; I've always liked comma better
since the action is to pick an item rather than a location). I
implemented that for nethack a long time ago, but it was mixed in
with other stuff that wasn't ready for prime time and vanished
when I lost access to the VMS system I used to use).
Using 'm' prefix to skip part of a multi-part operation is a lot
simpler to implement but doesn't include an in-game reminder that
it is available.
Revised Guidebook.mn is tested, Guidebook.tex is not.
Reported almost exactly one year ago by a beta tester proofreading
the Guidebook, the number_pad setting to support the German keyboard
which swaps the Y and Z keys is for a keyboard that is used in other
places too. The report mentioned France and Belgium; Wikipedia's
"keyboard layout" entry mentions "Germany, Austria, Switzerland and
other parts of Central Europe". This changes references to "German
keyboard" (there were only a couple) into "QWERTZ keyboard".
While looking for things in core which might conceivably trigger the
Windows ctype assertion failure (haven't found any yet), I noticed
that help_dir() was still treating ^O as a wizard mode-only command.
Also, documentation about that command was never brought up to date.
I wish this change to ^O hadn't been done. #overview already has
a meta/alt M-O shortcut and overloading wizard mode commands makes
documentation more complicated since wizard mode stuff traditionally
has been left unmentioned.
Fix a typo in the text for encumbrance in the Status section.
Fix a typo in Guidebook.mn for non-fatal status condtions that
resulted in bold font for the entire Stun/Conf/Hallu line.
For Guidebook.ps, force
Status
Hunger:
onto two lines instead of being bunched up together on one line.
(For Guidebook.txt, it's already two lines.)
For both Guidebook.txt and Guidebook.ps, force some extra vertical
separation between the set of one-letter commands and the set of
extended commands, between the set of extended commands and the
set of Meta-key commands, and between the set of Meta-key commands
and the extra one-letter commands available when number_pad is on.
I don't know whether Guidebook.tex's output would look better with
something similar.
...to make it more interesting. Using #vanquished in wizard mode
or answering 'a' to the "disclose vanquished monsters?" prompt will
put up a menu to choose how the list of vanquished monsters should
be ordered. Right now there are 6 choices:
Traditional: by monster level, by internal index within level;
by monster toughness, by internal index within monstr[] rating;
alphabetically, first unique monsters, then others;
by monster class, low to high level within class;
by count, high to low, by internal index within tied count;
by count, low to high, by internal index within tied count.
Two other orderings are implemented but suppressed from the menu
since they seemed uninteresting (alphabetical with uniques
intermixed with other monsters, and by-class high to low within
class). The first two are very similar to each other and one of
them should probably be discarded too. The by-class order(s) have
class-name separator lines between classes.
Options parsing for end of game disclosure has extended current
+v (always show vanquished monsters)
-v (never show vanquished monsters)
yv (prompt about them, with default response 'y')
nv (prompt about them, with default response 'n')
to include
#v (always show vanquished monsters and choose the ordering)
?v (prompt about them, with default response 'a' to choose ordering)
The 'a' response was picked because it's easy to use ynaq()
instead of ynq(), but it can be considered to mean "ask about sort
order". (Neither of the two new option values could be "av"; 'a'
for disclosing attributes would become ambiguous.)
+v or answering 'y' for any of yv, nv, or ?v uses the most recent
sort ordering (if #vanquished has been used in wizard mode) or the
traditional one (normal mode, or #vanquished not used). Players
will probably want to specify a default order and then use +v
rather than choose the final order from a menu. That hasn't been
implemented here. Count high to low might be a better default than
level high to low.
While looking through Guidebook.tex to try to determine whether
the new text needed special handling, I spotted multiple mistakes
in the existing text. Probably all from earlier updates of mine;
this attempts to fix them. As usual of late, Guidebook.mn has been
tested and Guidebook.tex hasn't.
