Talk:Options

Should the options be listed in alphabetical order, or first split into booleans and compound options? (I know they're listed with booleans first in the game, but IMO that's a misfeature :) --Paxed 16:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Alphabetical order seems more useful. That's how the guidebook lists them. --Jayt 21:37, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

subkeyvalue

In the standard defaults.nh in the windows binary download, you can find an option called subkeyvalue. The numbers are ASCII codes (decimal).

# Finnish keyboards might need these modifications uncommented. 
# For  \, @, $, [, |
#OPTIONS=subkeyvalue:171/92
#OPTIONS=subkeyvalue:178/64
#OPTIONS=subkeyvalue:180/36
#OPTIONS=subkeyvalue:184/91
#OPTIONS=subkeyvalue:188/124

I wanted to substitute y with z because I've got an German keyboard layout (QERTZ). I tried

OPTIONS=subkeyvalue:121/122
OPTIONS=subkeyvalue:122/121

but it doesn't work.

Does anyone know something about that option? It isn't documented in the Guidebook. --217.80.113.242 17:47, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I just took a peek at the source code and I can't see why it wouldn't work, provided you're using the console version. I don't think it works with the tiled version. Key processing is wonky on Windows console programs and the subkeyvalue option was meant to fix that; see nhraykey.dll and W343-4 for a brief description of the issues.--Ray Chason 20:04, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Distro-specific stuff

Someone added this:

• /etc/nethack/nethackrc for system-wide settings on unix-like OS's, and ~/.nethackrc for individual users to override those settings.

But that seems to be a Debian-specific thing; vanilla NetHack compiled from source definitely doesn't do this. --paxed 16:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Missing options

The following options are missing from the article:

• Atari specific: font_message, font_map, font_status, font_menu, font_text, scroll_margin, ascii_map, align_message, align_status, vary_msgcount
• Win32 specific: font_menu (font_size_menu), font_status (font_size_status), font_message (font_size_message), font_text (font_size_text), scroll_amount, scroll_margin, map_mode, hilite_pet, align_message, vary_msgcount

The following aren't used with OPTIONS=, instead they're used like SOUNDDIR=/home/nick/nethacksounds/:

• SOUND, SOUNDDIR
• QtNetHack specific: QT_FONTSIZE, QT_COMPACT, QT_TILEHEIGHT, QT_TILEWIDTH
• Amiga specific: FONT, PATH, DEPTH, DRIPENS, SCREENMODE, MSGPENS, TEXTPENS, MENUPENS, STATUSPENS, OTHERPENS, PENS, FGPENS, BGPENS
• Others: HACKDIR, LEVELDIR (or LEVELS), SAVEDIR, BONESDIR, DATADIR, SCOREDIR, LOCKDIR, CONFIGDIR, TROUBLEDIR, RAMDISK, SAVE

--paxed 17:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)