Whatever happened to macros?

[Julian]

Back in the day, I used to be able to have a macro to target the nearest beastie, which I could use either from the command prompt, or from the targeting prompt when casting a spell. There were other things I found useful, but that was the big one.

Why were macros removed?

[Sky]

AFAIK keybinds fully replace macros.

bind: F1 -> paa'
casts magic missile at the nearest mob

'h' shoots arrows at the nearest monster

if you inscribe rods you can make a keybind to zap those to the nearest monster, but i dont know how to do that.

the ' command is the "nearest enemy" command.

[will_asher]

I recently discovered the tab button is a built in macro to fire default ammo at the nearest monster. (I wish it would target the currently targetted monster instead of the nearest monster.)

[archolewa]

Also, in the Roguelike keyset (not sure what it is in the normal keyset) Ctrl+V repeats your last command. Very handy when bombarding Gothmog with arrows of demon slaying.

[Julian]

AFAIK keybinds fully replace macros. .

They do not; they are only used when the game is waiting at the command prompt. Macros just inserted a set of keystrokes into the input stream, and so were useful for targeting mid-command, among other things.

'h' shoots arrows at the nearest monster

It moves you east; I don't know what you're talking about. :-p

if you inscribe rods you can make a keybind to zap those to the nearest monster, but i dont know how to do that.

Make a keymap that maps to 'a1*t' if you want to zap the closest, and don't have 'use old target by default' set. (Or, I suppose, '*ta1')

If you do have 'use old target'€™ set, I find it more useful to have a separate keymap to target the closest beastie, and keymaps that'€™ll just cast your attack spells. If you don't have a target set, it'€™ll give you the prompt, and that'€™s where I want my target command to be a macro. As it is, I have to type '*t'€™, like some sort of primitive caveman.

[ewert]

Inscribing @[cmd][number], for those who did not know, will let you use that number to pick that item for that command.

Some of my standards for example include @r0!d!r for my ?WoR, which means when I (r)ead a scroll I can press 0, and it will verify the action, or if I try to drop them.

So for example keybind of ^D = z1 will use my Detection rod if that is inscribed with @z1 ...

[Pete Mack]

^D = @z1 for rod activation on ctrl-D. Or @a1 for theroguelike keymap.

[rizarefaldi]

They do not; they are only used when the game is waiting at the command prompt. Macros just inserted a set of keystrokes into the input stream, and so were useful for targeting mid-command, among other things cara install windows 10




It moves you east; I don't know what you're talking about. :-p



Make a keymap that maps to 'a1*t' if you want to zap the closest, and don't have 'use old target by default' set. (Or, I suppose, '*ta1')

If you do have 'use old target'€™ set, I find it more useful to have a separate keymap to target the closest beastie, and keymaps that'€™ll just cast your attack spells. If you don't have a target set, it'€™ll give you the prompt, and that'€™s where I want my target command to be a macro. As it is, I have to type '*t'€™, like some sort of primitive caveman.

They don't? I thought keybinds fully replace macros