Colon

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Printable ASCII characters
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + space
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = { } |
Qq 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 colon (:) serves the following purposes,

  • Press : to use the near look command, which looks at the square you currently are on. In menus, pressing : activates menu search, which helps you select specific items in a menu containing a long list of items.

Variants

SLASH'EM

SLASH'EM introduces new monsters that use the : glyph:

UnNetHack

UnNetHack introduces one new monster that uses the : glyph:

xNetHack

In xNetHack, version 3.0 changed the glyph for the lizard monster class to l (lowercase L) to avoid using punctuation glyphs, and moved leprechauns into the ​i imp or minor demon class. This was reverted in version 6.0.[1]

EvilHack

EvilHack introduces two new monsters that use the : glyph:

SlashTHEM

SlashTHEM retains the monsters added in SlashTHEM and adds new monsters that use the : glyph:

References