OK, they actually work fine, it's just that the default keys require a number pad for them to work... I guess Robots was written in a time before laptops....

I hesitate to change this, since the default wouldn't make much sense without the number pad. Guess these need to be rethought.

I guess we would want to add nethack-controls. They are suitable and quite well known. I think this would be the best way to map the 8 directions onto the keyboard.

"The hjkl keys move your character to the adjacent square west, south, north, or east. The yubn keys move your character diagonally."
source: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/NetHack/Controls#yuhjklbn

This way of doing it precedes Numpads on keyboards by quite a few years, I guess.

Created attachment 278892 [details] [review]
Use more reasonable hotkeys

All of the previous hotkeys assume the existance of a number pad. Do
people have number pads anymore?

Any suggestions for the non-directional hotkeys (teleport safely, teleport randomly, wait one turn, wait forever)? I kept them at their original values after switching to non-number pad keys, but these no longer make any sense at all. Teleport safely is =, teleport randomly is 8, etc.

Maybe , and . would make sense for wait one turn and wait forever? Maybe r and s for random and safe teleport?

Created attachment 278893 [details] [review]
Update user help for new hotkeys

Wait or skip turn is traditionally space. I think rogue's or nethacks controls, seeing that we have the same view as those games, we could take a hint from there.

Let's use space to skip one turn, and remove hotkeys from the other three -- mnemonics should be enough, and it would really suck to accidentally teleport because you pressed the wrong button.

The following fix has been pushed:
66a3421 Use more reasonable hotkeys

Created attachment 278904 [details] [review]
Use more reasonable hotkeys

All of the previous hotkeys assume the existance of a number pad. Do
people have number pads anymore?

Can we have both numpad and rogue-inputs? Or can we sense that in any way or switch between setups?

Well our hotkey manager only allows one hotkey per command. I guess the easiest way to get around this would be to add a hidden set of additional default hotkeys. This is what GNOME does to make Alt+Tab work even though the hotkey manager says Super+Tab.

But probably if you want to use a number pad, you'd just have to set the hotkeys yourself. This seems acceptable to me: the new hotkeys are totally useless unless you have a qwerty keyboard, for instance, so many users will have to do this anyway.