On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:39:33PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > Time for today's silly diff yet? > The following augments the worm(6) manpage to > answer the burning question "what happens if > I make the worm too long initially"? > > Jan >
i've just committed a fix from paul janzen that answers your burning question: on -current (i.e. as of 10 minutes ago), worm bails out with an error message if you make your initial worm too long. paul also contributed a second fix to have the cursor start on the worm's head. happy worming! jmc > > Index: games/worm/worm.6 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/games/worm/worm.6,v > retrieving revision 1.12 > diff -u -p -u -p -r1.12 worm.6 > --- games/worm/worm.6 22 Oct 2009 18:07:31 -0000 1.12 > +++ games/worm/worm.6 23 Jan 2014 11:14:45 -0000 > @@ -62,3 +62,6 @@ The current score > is kept in the upper right corner of the screen. > .Pp > The optional argument, if present, is the initial length of the worm. > +If the specified initial length would cause the worm to cover > +more then roughly one third of the screen, the default length > +will be used instead.
