Re: [Nethack-el-devel] glyphs

[Shawn Betts]

Ryan Yeske <address@hidden> writes:

> Shawn Betts <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Yo,
> > 
> > So I was thinking that rather than the glyph hack we do right now
> > (create a .el file), we should stream them to emacs when nethack
> > starts up. What do you think? That would probably make it a lot
> > slower...perhaps stream them when you toggle them.
> 
> I don't really see the advantage to that.  The way it is now, while
> somewhat inelegant, does allow the user to hack the tiles.

Yeah...I guess I was just thinking of ways to keep the tiles sync'd.

> That .el file should be generated, at least, I think.

Yes, this is the Right way to do it.

> BTW, I renamed most references of glyphs to tiles, which is, I think
> proper nethack lingo.  Everything except the file, nethack-glyphs.el.
> Glyph is the more general term; either graphical tiles or ascii chars.
> Though its somewhat confused now by the fact that gamegrid supports
> "glyphs".

Yeah, I noticed. That sounds good. So perhaps we should rename the
file to nethack-tiles.el?

Shawn