[1801838] Use a menu to show mutation list so long lists don't scroll off the end of the terminal.

git-svn-id: https://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crawl-ref/trunk@3331 c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/format.cc b/crawl-ref/source/format.cc
index 33bb2a47d1..7d529315a3 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/format.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/format.cc
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ int formatted_string::get_colour(const std::string &tag)
     return (colour != -1? colour : LIGHTGREY);
 }
 
+// Parses a formatted string in much the same way as parse_string, but
+// handles EOL by moving the cursor down to the next line instead of
+// using a literal EOL. This is important if the text is not supposed
+// to clobber existing text to the right of the lines being displayed
+// (some of the tutorial messages need this).
+//
 formatted_string formatted_string::parse_block(
         const std::string &s,
         bool  eol_ends_format,
@@ -208,6 +214,11 @@ std::string formatted_string::html_dump() const
     return s;
 }
 
+bool formatted_string::operator < (const formatted_string &other) const
+{
+    return std::string(*this) < std::string(other);
+}
+
 const formatted_string &
 formatted_string::operator += (const formatted_string &other)
 {