[Pkg-nethack-devel] Bug#62361: travelling up-and-left shouldn't answer "yes" to queries

Joshua Kwan Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>, 62361@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:54:54 -0700


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On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 12:38:34AM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote:
> So many times the game has screwed me because I've hit a few "y"
> characters to travel up-and-left, after which it asks a question and
> takes one of them in response to it.  Boy, is that annoying!  The game
> should require a capital Y for its queries, at least as an option.

Because of the classic case-insensitivity in nethack, it's impossible to
use Y, as I found out the hard way. How about 'h' (for 'hit'?)

A patch I found online makes you type 'yes'; I found this too obnoxious
during gameplay. What do you think?

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Joshua Kwan

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