farlook feedback for overloaded symbols

When using '/' or ';' and picking--not just viewing the autodescribe
feedback for--a space or '#' on the map, the game would produce
 That can be many things (stone)
or
 That can be many things (corridor)
unlike the usual
 -     the interior of a monster or a wall or an open door (wall)
when the symbol matched more than 4 things.  I first changed it to
append the full sentence's missing period, but ultimately switched to
 #     can be many things (corridor)
so that the symbol that "many things" refers to isn't hidden.  This
works better for ^P where player isn't looking at the symbol anymore.

diff --git a/doc/fixes36.3 b/doc/fixes36.3
index c17abf8932a9b00af6e675b88d329f27e39403b5..07ab11624b125abba61e0822601e7bfc4eabc7f5 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/fixes36.3
+++ b/doc/fixes36.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.1 $ $NHDT-Date: 1557569075 2019/05/11 10:04:35 $
+$NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.3 $ $NHDT-Date: 1558045586 2019/05/16 22:26:26 $
 
 This fixes36.3 file is here to capture information about updates in the 3.6.x
 lineage following the release of 3.6.2 in May 2019. Please note, however,
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ when place_object() puts a non-boulder on the map at a spot which contains
        other objects, put it under all boulders in the pile rather than just
        under the top one; previously, map wasn't showing a boulder there if
        the top one got moved by means other than pushing
+when examining the map with '/' or ';', picking a symbol which is used for
+       more than 4 things yielded a sentence lacking its terminating period
 
 
 Fixes to Post-3.6.2 Problems that Were Exposed Via git Repository

diff --git a/src/pager.c b/src/pager.c
index 5ca886df6370d049a6fdca1b00e88915a25a0d69..ce1aae41b37456fcdc83f772fd8b5429e9806bad 100644 (file)
--- a/src/pager.c
+++ b/src/pager.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6 pager.c $NHDT-Date: 1555627307 2019/04/18 22:41:47 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.151 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6 pager.c $NHDT-Date: 1558045586 2019/05/16 22:26:26 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.153 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2018. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -1042,7 +1042,10 @@ struct permonst **for_supplement;
      */
 
     if (found > 4)
-        Sprintf(out_str, "%s", "That can be many things");
+        /* 3.6.3: this used to be "That can be many things" (without prefix)
+           which turned it into a sentence that lacked its terminating period;
+           we could add one below but reinstating the prefix here is better */
+        Sprintf(out_str, "%scan be many things", prefix);
 
  didlook:
     if (looked) {