Updating help files

[PowerDiver]

I believe that is incorrect. An ego with a curse shows up as cursed or worthless or something. I believe this distinction is about the presence of the curse flag only, so if there was an ego with only aggravation that would show up as (ego) or (ego-item) or whatever it is.

Either my memory is gone, or someone changed it since I last looked. Probably just me being senile.

I just got one, and it showed up as {ego, cursed}

[fizzix]

I could write up an initial version if people think we should do a "newb guide intro to dungeon" thingy...

I think something like this could be useful, although you may find that your descriptions don't match those of other players. I didn't include any of this because of this reason and also because I wasn't sure how spoilerish it should be.

[fizzix]

I think this is the last one, although I think I realize now that there was no mention in any of the files about squelching, so I really think I need to stick that in somewhere, I don't know where though...

I also don't know what the mouse buttons on the bottom of the screen are. If anyone uses them can you please explain.

Also I couldn't figure out what display status does on the subwindow menu.

options

almost all these changes are dictated by actual changes in the options menu

added hide items set as squelchable

added always show lists

added mouse movement and mouse buttons (but no description for mouse buttons)

moved highlight player to match ordering

removed depth_in_feet

removed (very slow) from center map continuously

changed "'viewable' grids" to 'field of view' to match option menu

removed (slow) tags where it appears

changed disturb panel to disturb detect

removed disturb when boring things happen

removed the monster farming references to activate quick messages. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why it was here or what on earth someone reading this list for the first time would think it meant.

added some more description to auto_more. Specifically mentioned subwindows.

added notify_recharge

removed auto_scum option

added birth_money

changed the ordering of birth options to match the list

changed that upstairs are not generated to upstairs are not usable in birth_ironman

there's a comment on birth_no_artifacts that should be read by bron, not a change, but just pointing it out.

added birth_no_preserve and birth_feelings

changed "window flags" to "subwindow display settings"

changed display player commands to match what actually is there

removed the 'very slow' on overhead view

Added item squelch settings

Added the remainder of the settings in the options menu.

[Pete Mack]

A noble effort!

[fizzix]

added squelching description in customize.txt

Also added a update of all the major changes since 3.0.9 (from rephial) as well as changes up to what is currently in HEAD.

[Magnate]

added squelching description in customize.txt

Also added a update of all the major changes since 3.0.9 (from rephial) as well as changes up to what is currently in HEAD.

Superb, thanks again. I managed to proof birth.txt and general.txt at the weekend. I was just about to start on command.txt, but fortunately checked here and saw that you had re-done it! Nicely done - I had had the same thought, expecting the list of commands to be there.

I'll check commit the rest as soon as I can - hopefully this week. I made a few changes, specifically about references to melee blows and energy: I don't want them to go out of date as soon as fractional blows is introduced. But I left most of it untouched.

Thanks again.

[ekolis]

Whoa, fractional blows are gonna appear soon in V? Awesome!

[buzzkill]

Maybe it's a little late to ask this, but is there a particular reason why the help is split into so many different files. I've always thought that it would be much more useful if were all in a single searchable file.

[fizzix]

Maybe it's a little late to ask this, but is there a particular reason why the help is split into so many different files. I've always thought that it would be much more useful if were all in a single searchable file.

You could definitely combine them all into one large file. That could be reasonable also. I don't know how to do the ordering.

I kind of like the current menu interface though, I think it makes sense and is reasonably laid out.