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  • Stacked items

    From Yosemite Sam@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 21 14:24:45 2022
    I lost a promising game on NethackW (the graphical version of Nethack) due
    to a lack of showing stacks. If the stacks had been represented, I would have been wary of the trap there beneath a corpse and some loot. As it was, all that was shown was a scroll and I walked on top of it with no hesitation. I said damn it all to NethackW, but then later realized that my options on Nethack are the same. It only shows the top item and gives no indication
    of other items beneath it. Where I saw this was on nethack.alt.org. The options there are set so that the colors are inversed if there is two or more items represented. What is the name of this option? Does it work in
    NethackW?

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to Yosemite Sam on Thu Jul 21 23:53:26 2022
    On Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 2:24:47 PM UTC-7, Yosemite Sam wrote:
    [...] What is the name of this option? Does it work in NethackW?

    The option is 'hilite_pile' and it is disabled by default. You can
    enable it via the 'O' command or in your run-time options file.

    The Windows GUI interface implements it by overlaying the
    tile for the top object with a small white plus sign in its upper
    left corner. On some tiles that is fairly easy to see; on others,
    not so much.

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