Help with key designation

[petefj]

Is there a way of using one of the unused keys to read a scroll? I would like the ability to read a “Phase door scroll” by selection of an unused key.
If this is simplistic I do apologise. I must say that coding is a black and unknown art to me.

[backwardsEric]

You can map a key to an action. The section of the help describing that is here: help for Angband's keymaps.

To do that for reading a phase door scroll, you'll want to inscribe the scrolls so that they can be referred to by a number rather than the letter that is their current position in the pack. If you haven't done that already, press '{' for inscribe, select the phase door scrolls, and then enter

@r1

for the inscription. That sets those scrolls so you can select them with '1' when using the read command. You can replace '1' with another digit to use that digit for selecting the scrolls.

With the inscription set, map the key to invoke

r1

as the action.

There is a mechanism for automatically inscribing items (so when you use up all of your scrolls and buy or find more, you don't have to remember to inscribe the new stack for your keymap to work). Someone else may chime in with how best to use that for this case, since that's something I've never bothered to do.

[Estie]

To inscribe all phase door scrolls, just do the inscribing in the item knowledge menu instead of on the scrolls in the inventory.

~ a) for item knowledge
down to scrolls, right to scroll type, select phase door, type {@r1 as above.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Or in the = { menu..

[petefj]

Originally Posted by petefj

Is there a way of using one of the unused keys to read a scroll? I would like the ability to read a “Phase door scroll” by selection of an unused key.
If this is simplistic I do apologise. I must say that coding is a black and unknown art to me.

Many thanks for the replies. I’ll play around with them over the week-end and see if I can get it to work.
Thanks again.
petefj