Re: Overtaxed on moving day

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:12:56 -0500, Ben Kimball
<zubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Jove wrote:
>
>> And moving a stash six dungeon levels is not far at all. Do
>> you know the move '_' command? And the shortcuts?
>
>Oh my. It's exactly this sort of jawdroppingly useful information

Glad to help! :-D (Jes' a big ol' hearty grin o' joy.)

It is a thing of beauty, isn't it? Kudos to the designer/
implementor. (Except for not moving vertically by threes.
I did a quick program to try it and it manages to be a nice
tweak even on top of the already fine work.)


A good trick to use with that is if you want to go someplace
that's not a landmark, use the shortcuts to go to the nearest
landmark, then move to your intended destination.


>that makes me wonder why I didn't spend more time with the
>help command. Sigh.


Because the help command is for help, not learning new
commands. Even the Guidebook is like that.

And because you can only learn so much at one time, then you
need to use it for a while.

If you'd seen this when your first started, it probably
wouldn't have meant anything to you.




You want more fun? Controlled teleport uses the *same*
shortcuts. Add teleportitis, magic mapping and detect treasure
(or potion of object detection) and you can finish off a level in
under well under 50 moves, and 50 keystrokes.



I've often thought there should be a permanent thread called
Nethack Tip of the Day, or maybe of the Week.

One post per stated interval with an interface tip.
(With discussions permitted.)


Like my favorite: #adjust your inventory letters

'w' - your primary wielded weapon
'Q' - quivered ammo
'x' - secondary weapon
'a' - pickaxe/mattock ('aa' then both wields and prompts for
digging direction.)
't' - secondary thrown weapons (rocks, harmful potions, etc.)
'Z' - lizard corpse


NB autoquiver starts looking for quiverable weapons (not rocks)
in a-zA-Z order. Set your second stack of daggers to R. Other
daggers in order in the range S-Y.


Oh, and Ben? Your homework assignment is to find and report
on the shortcut keys I forgot^W left as an exercise for the
student. ;-)


All the best,

Jove

--
"I don't think you actually meant to condemn such practices,
which are probably those of any professional user. But the words
you used did." - "kanze" <kanze@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
.

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