On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:40:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > Disabling hjkl results in a rather nasty and inconvenient surprise when > you fire up the Debian nethack package. I seem to remember that in > previous versions of nethack enabling the numeric keypad did not disable > the standard movement keys. Restoring that behaviour would presumably > help both camps cope with the defaults.
Well, one problem I see with that immediately is that 'k' when number_pad is enabled means kick; if number_pad is off it means go up. Of course, we could disable k for kick and use ^D; but in the end we might end up with an awkward hybrid of number_pad and !number_pad. -- Joshua Kwan
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