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| Printable ASCII characters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~ | ! | @ | # | $ | % | ^ | & | * | ( | ) | _ | + | space | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ` | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | - | = | { | } | | | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ww | Ee | Rr | Tt | Yy | Uu | Ii | Oo | Pp | : | " | [ | ] | \ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Aa | Ss | Dd | Ff | Gg | Hh | Jj | Kk | Ll | ? | ; | ' | Ctrl | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zz | Xx | Cc | Vv | Bb | Nn | Mm | , | . | / | < | > | Alt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In NetHack, the caret symbol (^) serves the following purposes:
- In the dungeon, a ^ represents most traps, including magic portals but not counting webs.
- Press ^ for the trap ID command.
- ^ is the default for the menu_first_page option, and is supported by tty and curses interfaces; see menu controls.
The caret is also used as a prefix to denote a control character, e.g. using Ctrl + P to review previous messages - this is a standard UNIX usage also present in the MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows text-mode interfaces.
