Key (har har) Concepts

On the standard PC keyboard, keys such as Alt and Shift are unusual. These keys, when pressed, trigger no action on their own1. Instead, they alter the behaviour of other keys. Similarly, the NetHackDS key binding system differentiates keys based on whether or not they are ``chord keys'' (to Unix users, these are more familiarly known as ``meta'' keys), keys which can be combined with other keys for binding purposes, or regular keys.

But, unlike a PC, which has a strict set of chord keys, NetHackDS allows the flexibility to control which keys are chord keys, in addition to controlling which commands are bound to which keys/key combinations, which allows for incredibly flexible key binding.

Lastly, there is one ``special'' key in NetHackDS, the command key. It is this key which brings up the command window. And, again, there is an option for controlling which key is mapped to this functin.



Brett Kosinski 2008-01-08