Nethack features extented commands like #pray and #rub. I do not have to type #rub because ALT+R works.
Now I've been playing a knight for the first time and I want to ride my Pony. I have to use the #ride command but I'm unable to type a # sign in nethack. I don't remember having problems with this in the past.
Note: I have a azerty keyboard. And to write a # I have to press ALT+3
What do I need to change in defaults.nh so I can use all the extended commands?
> Nethack features extented commands like #pray and #rub. I do not have > to type #rub because ALT+R works.
> Now I've been playing a knight for the first time and I want to ride > my Pony. I have to use the #ride command but I'm unable to type a # > sign in nethack. I don't remember having problems with this in the > past.
> Note: I have a azerty keyboard. And to write a # I have to press ALT+3
> What do I need to change in defaults.nh so I can use all the extended > commands?
That may depend on your OS, keyboard and country/region setting. In other words what is your keyboard type defined to and what *specific* keyboard do you have. If you see a # key above the 3 and a / beside the right shift it should be US English. The keyboard type is *not* the country you are in, just to make this clear.
On Oct 19, 11:38 am, Toon <too...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nethack features extented commands like #pray and #rub. I do > not have to type #rub because ALT+R works. > Now I've been playing a knight for the first time and I want > to ride my Pony. I have to use the #ride command but I'm > unable to type a # sign in nethack. I don't remember having > problems with this in the past. > Note: I have a azerty keyboard. And to write a # I have to > press ALT+3
Then you should be able to do this in nethack as well. (In general, an azerty keyboard doesn't have a '#' character. Most azerty keyboards used on computers do allow it to be entered, using the alt key, but its position isn't standardized. Alt-3 is what the French keyboard drivers in Windows use, however, and I imagine a lot of other systems emulate this.)
> What do I need to change in defaults.nh so I can use all the > extended commands?
I'm not sure off hand how nethack manages its keyboard. I just installed a default version from the net here, and set my keyboard to French, and ALT-3 got me into the extended commands. (I usually have the keyboard set to US, of course, since I write more in C++ than in French:-).)
On Oct 19, 5:17 pm, APLer <AP...@floor.tilde> wrote:
> Toon <too...@gmail.com> wrote innews:2471f0e8-76cf-4371-9556-e0da23986ebc@m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com: > > Nethack features extented commands like #pray and #rub. I do not have > > to type #rub because ALT+R works. > > Now I've been playing a knight for the first time and I want to ride > > my Pony. I have to use the #ride command but I'm unable to type a # > > sign in nethack. I don't remember having problems with this in the > > past. > > Note: I have a azerty keyboard. And to write a # I have to press ALT+3 > > What do I need to change in defaults.nh so I can use all the extended > > commands? > That may depend on your OS, keyboard and country/region setting. In other > words what is your keyboard type defined to and what *specific* keyboard > do you have. If you see a # key above the 3 and a / beside the right shift > it should be US English. The keyboard type is *not* the country you are > in, just to make this clear.
I forgot to mention: this was on Windows. If I remember, I'll give it a try under Linux this week-end. (I don't have access to anything but Windows at the moment.)
>> > Nethack features extented commands like #pray and #rub. I do not have >> > to type #rub because ALT+R works.
>> > Now I've been playing a knight for the first time and I want to ride >> > my Pony. I have to use the #ride command but I'm unable to type a # >> > sign in nethack. I don't remember having problems with this in the >> > past.
>> > Note: I have a azerty keyboard. And to write a # I have to press ALT+3
>> > What do I need to change in defaults.nh so I can use all the extended >> > commands?
>> That may depend on your OS, keyboard and country/region setting. In other >> words what is your keyboard type defined to and what *specific* keyboard >> do you have. If you see a # key above the 3 and a / beside the right shift >> it should be US English. The keyboard type is *not* the country you are >> in, just to make this clear.
> I forgot to mention: this was on Windows. If I remember, I'll > give it a try under Linux this week-end. (I don't have access > to anything but Windows at the moment.)
>> > Nethack features extented commands like #pray and #rub. I do not have >> > to type #rub because ALT+R works.
>> > Now I've been playing a knight for the first time and I want to ride >> > my Pony. I have to use the #ride command but I'm unable to type a # >> > sign in nethack. I don't remember having problems with this in the >> > past.
>> > Note: I have a azerty keyboard. And to write a # I have to press >> > ALT+3
>> > What do I need to change in defaults.nh so I can use all the extended >> > commands?
>> That may depend on your OS, keyboard and country/region setting. In >> other words what is your keyboard type defined to and what *specific* >> keyboard do you have. If you see a # key above the 3 and a / beside the >> right shift it should be US English. The keyboard type is *not* the >> country you are in, just to make this clear.
> I forgot to mention: this was on Windows. If I remember, I'll > give it a try under Linux this week-end. (I don't have access > to anything but Windows at the moment.)
Don't change your nick. It makes people think you may be a troll - of which usenet is innundated. You're taking the wrong tack here - it can be just as wrong in MS windows as it can be in Linux and for the same reasons: it's one easy to get at setting that anyone can change. So change it back. In control panel look for keyboard and change the keyboard to US English and try that. Unless you have a custom keyboard with foreign characters on it such as the spanish upside down "?" or the french cedille, it *will* be right. You want *specifically* US 101. As I said *what* keyboard do you have?
James wrote: > On Oct 19, 5:17 pm, APLer <AP...@floor.tilde> wrote: >> Toon <too...@gmail.com> wrote >>I have to use the #ride command but I'm unable to type a # >> > sign in nethack. <clip> >> That may depend on your OS, keyboard and country/region setting. <clip> > I forgot to mention: this was on Windows.
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If it's on windows, then regardless of settings, keyboard layout, etc, you can type a # sign as follows.
First, depress the 'alt' key. Second, type '43' on the numeric keypad. Third, release the 'alt' key.
> James <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote innews:91cd182b-b1e6-4170-b7d0-e84f1fcddb0e@d34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com: > > On Oct 19, 5:17 pm, APLer <AP...@floor.tilde> wrote: > >> Toon <too...@gmail.com> wrote > >> innews:2471f0e8-76cf-4371-9556-e0da23986ebc@m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com > >> : > >> > Nethack features extented commands like #pray and #rub. I > >> > do not have to type #rub because ALT+R works. > >> > Now I've been playing a knight for the first time and I > >> > want to ride my Pony. I have to use the #ride command but > >> > I'm unable to type a # sign in nethack. I don't remember > >> > having problems with this in the past. > >> > Note: I have a azerty keyboard. And to write a # I have > >> > to press ALT+3 > >> > What do I need to change in defaults.nh so I can use all > >> > the extended commands? > >> That may depend on your OS, keyboard and country/region > >> setting. In other words what is your keyboard type defined > >> to and what *specific* keyboard do you have. If you see a # > >> key above the 3 and a / beside the right shift it should be > >> US English. The keyboard type is *not* the country you are > >> in, just to make this clear. > > I forgot to mention: this was on Windows. If I remember, > > I'll give it a try under Linux this week-end. (I don't have > > access to anything but Windows at the moment.) > Don't change your nick.
I don't have a nick. I only post under my real name (always with surname as well, since I'm not the only James around).
> It makes people think you may be a troll - of which usenet is > innundated. You're taking the wrong tack here - it can be just > as wrong in MS windows as it can be in Linux and for the same > reasons: it's one easy to get at setting that anyone can > change. So change it back. In control panel look for keyboard > and change the keyboard to US English and try that. Unless you > have a custom keyboard with foreign characters on it such as > the spanish upside down "?" or the french cedille, it *will* > be right. You want *specifically* US 101. As I said *what* > keyboard do you have?
I'm having difficulty parsing that last part, but yes, if you install the driver for a US keyboard, # will be shift-3. What's engraved on the keytops doesn't mean anything; it's the keyboard driver that decides what you get. I do this all the time: since most of my work is in C++, I need keys like {}|[ and ], which are awkward, to put it mildly, on the French and German keyboards which I've mostly used in the past. So I just install the three drivers: US, French and German, and switch between them according to what I'm doing. (I'm currently working in London, with a UK keyboard, but I've set it up for US, French and German as usual.)
Modern Linux seems to have adopted this feature from Windows, but I can remember when you needed to play games with xmodmap to achieve this, and that's still the case under Solaris.
None of which really clarifies where his problem is. He's using a French keyboard (according to his posting), so #, if present, is an extension, and he needs the alt key to get it. Nethack uses some fairly low level read routines, and may be detecting the alt key, interpreting the other information differently when it is present, and so missing the #, but I didn't have that problem here, under Windows XP, using the French keyboard driver, with the standard pre-compiled binaries for Windows (in tty mode---no tiles, and with the standard options).
> Nethack features extended commands like #pray and > #rub. I do not have to type #rub because ALT+R > works.
> Now I've been playing a knight for the first time > and I want to ride my Pony. I have to use the > #ride command but I'm unable to type a # sign in > nethack. I don't remember having problems with > this in the past.
> Note: I have a azerty keyboard. And to write a # I > have to press ALT+3
> What do I need to change in defaults.nh so I can > use all the extended commands?
I don't have a direct solution in that direction.
You've been given several possible approaches to typing a "#" into NetHack.
One more grotesquely awkward way is to open the character map tool, put a "#" off the map into the copy and paste widget, then copy and paste the "#" from there to NetHack each time you want to use an extended command.
Menu layouts differ, but in my version of Windows XP, that tool is at:
Start => Programs => Accessories => System Tools => Character Map
I can't copy/paste the # sign from the charactermap. I cant do ctrl+V in maphack, and I cant rightclick and select paste.
I downloaded the Dos version of nethack, I have to run it in dosbox else it wont work. (I'm on Windows 7) And there it works! I can just press Alt + 3 and I get my #-sign
In the Windows Version it says: "Unknown Command 'M-'".
Now I would like it to work in the Windows Version so I don't have to use dosbox, but it's isn't a big deal if that's not possible.
I have a similar problem using tiles on OS X: \ is not available.My solution is to temporarily switch to US keyboard layout for this one keystroke only.
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