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[Grotug]

It's the other way around. You need to delete '8', and map 'up' to '8'

Ahh, maybe it was as simple as that. I am not sure anymore since I just reset the program. But I may risk mapping my TO again. It's very interesting; when I am nervous, I become a mess. During my winning game, I tried to banish 5 drujs from a room. And when I hit 'a' from the list to read ?Banish, my finger tapped twice ('cause it's my pinky finger and is a little jittery like that) so I banished any ants on the level. I have to be soo careful when I am TOing things when I am nervous. I guess part of it is I am so used to real time games. I grew up playing Doom: instincts and reaction. Angband is almost like Chess. You can take all the time in the world to contemplate your move. But trouble and death come swift in Angband and there is no loading your last save, so I find it very nerve wracking.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I use a MacBookPro. Here are the keymaps and inscriptions that I use (these for the latest Master): Nightly.txt

Change the extension from .txt to .prf. Uncomment out the appropriate lines for the class you are playing. I.e., delete the "#" at the beginning of the relevant command "keymap-act" line.

Mostly I use the Function keys, mapped in such a way that the effect is the same no matter which class I'm playing. F1=identify, F2=some form of detection, F3=some form of mapping, F4=light area, F5=detect object (rogue only), F9= teleport other, F10=haste self.

Note that I map the capital "F" key to firing principal magical/spell attack, so I have to use ^F to fuel lights.

Tab is mapped to Rest for 5 turns.

"y" and "j" are mapped to swap out right and left rings, respectively, since I do this fairly often. I inscribe the right rings @1 and the left rings @2.

I also manually inscribe my weapon @0, so I can swap easily with another weapon using "x". Sometimes I inscribe launchers with @3 to wield them easily with "w3", and sometimes inscribe diggers with @8 to wield them easily with "w8".

I also inscribe ammunition with "=g" to pick them back up easily. Sometimes with "@f1=g", @f2=g", etc., if I want to change the quiver sorting.

My inscriptions are also harmonized so that the same number gets the same type of effect regardless of whether using wand, stave, rod, potion, etc.

E.g., 4 is light area. keymap F4 is light area. And Light area scrolls, rods, staves, are inscribed using 4 as the number, e.g., @r4 on scrolls of light, @u4 on staves of light, @z4 on rods of illumination.

[Grotug]

Very cool; I may see about adopting your keymaps. Thanks for sharing!

In other news: was Inertia buffed from <-2> to <-1>? Kicking serious butt right now since Inertia frees up a ring slot for [+11] damage ring since I have a modest pair of Boots of Speed.

Ahh, this is nice. Toying with a pack of Hellhounds after ?DDing. If things continue going smoothly, I might just have me a sub-100kt game.

[Derakon]

Keys that are handy for use in keymaps:

'",<>QxXBYF!@#$%^

For keys you may actually want to use for their original purpose sometimes, like <>F, you can hit \ and then the key to access its "underlying" functionality. I usually map F to a light-room effect, which is a nice reference to its original use.

I find using these keys to be more convenient than using the function keys, since I can't touch-type function keys reliably.

[Grotug]

Keys that are handy for use in keymaps:

'",<>QxXBYF!@#$%^

For keys you may actually want to use for their original purpose sometimes, like <>F, you can hit \ and then the key to access its "underlying" functionality. I usually map F to a light-room effect, which is a nice reference to its original use.

I find using these keys to be more convenient than using the function keys, since I can't touch-type function keys reliably.

Thank you for that! I was gonna ask, actually, but you saved me the trouble.

[Carnivean]

Keys that are handy for use in keymaps:

'",<>QxXBYF!@#$%^

I find that the F keys (F1-F12) provide a handy set of macros for mages, no use of the shift key required. They even come in natural groupings. F1-4 for identify and detection, F5-8 for attack spells, F9-12 for various utility spells is my preferred setup.

[Patashu]

It's also worth noting that you can macro modified keys. For example, alt+F1-F12, shift+F1-F12 and ctrl+F1-F12 are all macro'able. Probably many other combinations work, I didn't try everything yet.

[Derakon]

I find that the F keys (F1-F12) provide a handy set of macros for mages, no use of the shift key required. They even come in natural groupings. F1-4 for identify and detection, F5-8 for attack spells, F9-12 for various utility spells is my preferred setup.

Yeah, for me it's mostly a matter of never having learned to touch-type the F keys and also that some of them are co-opted by OSX to do various specific things. But if they work for you, then great!

[Tarrasque]

Yeah, for me it's mostly a matter of never having learned to touch-type the F keys and also that some of them are co-opted by OSX to do various specific things. But if they work for you, then great!

You can make them act like regular F keys with the fn key. Or, what I like, change your keyboard preferences to swap things so the F keys work without fn but need to type e.g. fn-F1 to lower brightness.