bolt types

[Tibarius]

What is the difference between the following BOLT types please?

BOLT (example priest spall Annihilation)
BOLT_AWARE (used by confuse/hold monster)
BOLT_STATUS (used by teleport other)

[Pete Mack]

Install grep. This is trivially easy, and it has functionality that yoy cannot do without in development, even of all you change is config data. Alternatively install a "real" editor that gives the same funcrionality.

[Tibarius]

grep

Triviality ends if the recommendated application requires another operating system, i am using a windows machine.

[Pete Mack]

Again: mingw or cygwin gives you grep.
MSVC express and other IDEs let you do multifile regexp search from the editor.

[Derakon]

grep does not require a Linux machine. Install the cygwin toolkit -- or better yet, install Git for Windows, which comes with a Bash shell and a bunch of Linux standard tools, and will also let you pull source code from Vanilla's GitHub site (or from your own fork of that) and push your changes back.

Part of making things is learning to use the tools that best enable you to make things. That includes in this case learning how to read code and how to search the codebase. We can and will answer questions, but not to the extent of telling you how to do your job.

In this case, you can search the code on GitHub, see that the only reference to BOLT_AWARE outside of the data files is in list-effects.h, and compare the entry there to the entries for other kinds of spells. That will be the full extent of the difference between the different kinds of bolts.