Re: Other nethack options

2003-10-19 Thread Lukas Geyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:11:15AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > hjkl is extremely newbie-unfriendly. > > And? Come on, this is *nethack*. It's the hardest game I know of, bar > none. You have to learn a pile of keystroke commands when you first > sta

Re: Other nethack options

2003-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:11:15AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Lukas Geyer wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's trivial to reconfigure it in nethack's option screen, just like any > > > other option. I'm not sure why this one should be special. > >

Re: Other nethack options

2003-10-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Lukas Geyer wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's trivial to reconfigure it in nethack's option screen, just like any > > other option. I'm not sure why this one should be special. hjkl is extremely newbie-unfriendly. Arrows require the player to manually t

Re: Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)

2003-10-18 Thread Lukas Geyer
"Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: > > Right, that reminds me of a default option which I always change, > > namely pickup_types. I don't know what the default is at the moment > > (in woody it seems to be just $), but IMHO th

Re: Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)

2003-10-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: > Right, that reminds me of a default option which I always change, > namely pickup_types. I don't know what the default is at the moment > (in woody it seems to be just $), but IMHO things to be auto-pickuped > are "$!?+/=, and some char

Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)

2003-10-18 Thread Lukas Geyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's trivial to reconfigure it in nethack's option screen, just like any > other option. I'm not sure why this one should be special. > > IMO, leave it at the upstream default; you'll surprise nethack players > coming from non-Debian systems less that wa