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authorRobert Vollmert <rvollmert@gmx.net>2009-11-29 20:54:57 +0100
committerRobert Vollmert <rvollmert@gmx.net>2009-11-29 21:00:21 +0100
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Optionally display message window at top of terminal.
Set messages_at_top=true to use. This is not quite aesthetically pleasing since character name and title which form a kind of heading for the screen are now in the middle. It might be better to display them in an extra line across the top. Also, the layout should really be moved out to lua and made completely user configurable.
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-rw-r--r--crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt b/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt
index e9f55dd4ca..0ed1da5dae 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The contents of this text are:
status_caption_colour, delay_message_clear,
show_inventory_weights, show_gold_turns, show_beam,
item_stack_summary_minimum, list_rotten,
- mlist_min_height, msg_max_height,
+ mlist_min_height, msg_max_height, messages_at_top,
mlist_allow_alternate_layout, mlist_targetting, classic_hud,
menu_colour, menu_colour_prefix_class, menu_colour_shops,
message_colour, force_more_message,
@@ -1329,6 +1329,11 @@ msg_max_height = 10
expanded, the message area will expand up to this height.
The monster list will get the rest.
+messages_at_top = false
+ Put the message window at the top of the screen. This moves
+ the last message close to the center of the view in conjunction
+ with delay_message_clear.
+
mlist_allow_alternate_layout = false
Display the monster list wherever Crawl may find space on
your console display, usually to the left of the map, rather