[Pkg-nethack-devel] Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

Adam Borowski kilobyte@mimuw.edu.pl
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:33:35 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:15:00AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> > Well, one problem I see with that immediately is that 'k' when
> > number_pad is enabled means kick; if number_pad is off it means go up.
> > Of course, we could disable k for kick and use ^D; but in the end we
> > might end up with an awkward hybrid of number_pad and !number_pad.
> 
> My recollection is that that is exactly what used to happen - enabling
> support for the number pad had no effect at all on the standard motion
> keys.  The effect of number_pad was then extended.  I could be
> misremembering, though.

Yeah, at least in 3.2.2 you needed to use ^D for kick.

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