Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
Subject: Re: YANI - empty containers interface
<email deleted>
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:13:49 +0300, <email deleted> wrote:
> I find the behaviour when trying to put something in an empty container
> quite irritating. Let's remind it:
> #loot
> "The <container> is empty. Do you want to put something in it? (y/n)"
> This means I have to read the message and to press 'y' or to cancel via
> Esc.
> For comparison, non-empty containers behave like this - please forgive
> me that I've forgotten the exact words:
> #loot
> "Do what?
> o - take out
> i - put in
> b - both of the above"
> So my suggestion is to change the behaviour of empty containers to be
> the same as non-empty ones. That is:
> #loot
> "Do what?
> i - put in"
> This way, I don't have to look at the container. If I want to put
> something in, pressing 'i' will lead to the same results in both cases.
This part of the suggestion was not implemented, however:
> If I want to take something out, then pressing 'o' or 'b' - although
> they are not in the list of choices - will display a message "This
><container> is empty" and end the #loot-ing session.
5797f8110b