Quick question about keymaps / macros

[Dudemanbroski]

I am running Angband 4.1.2 and I am trying to create a macro for rest as needed (R & enter) so I smacked R&\r in to the create a keymap thingie and to my surprise it doesn't work. Neither does R&[enter], nor R&/r and the documentation is very, very sparse and barely even mentions the macro / keymap functionality of the game not to mention how to make it press enter for me, one would think that this might be a good bit of a information to include in the documentation. Is there some esoteric invocation I can enter in to the keymap / macro creator wizard to make it do what I want?

ps. why are they even called keymaps? It is somewhat confusing as keymap makes me think re-mapping a key, as in modern computer game way where you might re-map a crouch key from c to ctrl for example. Macro on the otherhand means quite literally making one keypress make an action that would normally require many keypresses.

[Pete Mack]

Macro is a technical term meaning significantly more than that allowing (and they have been removed from angband.) In angband, aKeymap allows you to execute a single ordinary command. Macros used to allow things like toggling options (and in Sil allow toggling abilities like Flaming Arrows.)

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I am running Angband 4.1.2 and I am trying to create a macro for rest as needed (R & enter) ...

Resting to full shouldn't be a regular practice. Rather than R&, try R5[Enter]. Or some other number of turns. I map [Tab] to R5[Enter], but you might like R10, or some other number. @ rests that number of turns unless earlier disturbed. If more rest is required, I hit Tab again. If it is one of the rare instances that resting to full may be warranted, then I just use the regular key press method.

[Sky]

R&[Enter] should work, it's what i use - for always resting to full. I'm not sure why this should be discouraged, resting less only leads to spamming the rest button and we know what spamming buttons leads to.

[Estie]

Resting to full shouldn't be a regular practice. Rather than R&, try R5[Enter]. Or some other number of turns. I map [Tab] to R5[Enter], but you might like R10, or some other number. @ rests that number of turns unless earlier disturbed. If more rest is required, I hit Tab again. If it is one of the rare instances that resting to full may be warranted, then I just use the regular key press method.

Resting to full is my regular practice. I assume you dont use it often for turncount reasons ?

When I play, I prefer to minimize key presses rather than turn count.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I don't like standing around waiting for bad stuff to happen.

[Grotug]

As an HT Warrior I basically never rest. If I need to regenerate I'll walk to a place I've already been rather than rest. If I do rest in place I do it in 22 increments. The less I rest, the less trouble awakes or spawns.