I recently downloaded NetHack, and have begun to play on my laptop. However, I find the directional key bindings rather cumbersome. I do not have a Number Pad, and would rather not use the NumLock function on my laptop's keyboard. So, I'm currently left to deal with the default non-numerical bindings for movement. These are very counter-intuitive.
The help file displays them as this:
y k u
\|/
h-.-l
/|\
b j n
When, in reality, they're laid out more like this:
YU
HJKL.
BN
Is there any way to change this key binding to be less confusing – perhaps even using the actual directional keypad?
Best Answer
As far as I know, there's no way to remap the keys outside of a recompiling from source, or a crazy hack like using AutoHotKey to map entirely different keys on the keyboard to hjkl/yubn. Obviously that has side-effects though.
So you have a couple of options: