default macro setup

[schroeder]

I was just playing on the PK server, and so I thought I had my macros loaded, but It turns out i didn't, so i died. So, i was thinking about how nice it would be in in the macros menu, a small new option could be added: default macroset for this character. It would have you enter a macro savefile, and then it would autoload it at start every time.
Since I use multiple characters, some of them autoload the right macro file, while others don't. Its really strange, cus it seams to depend on weather or not, the first time I loged that character in, I saved a macro file for it. Because of this, it becomes real easy to forget to load them if i've been using a character a lot recently that didn't require macro loading. Having it so you could select your default load setup would make this problem go away completely.

[Big_Juan_Teh_Furby]

It's actually not difficult...set your macros however you'd like them, then export (or save them) by your playername. That way, when you load a character with that name on *any* server that uses the client you made the changes in, it'll work.

I just tested...my macros for bigjuan (saved as bigjuan.prf in the /lib/user folder on my client) work just fine for both the regular mangband server as well as my pkill server.

[Billsey]

It's actually even more generic than that, though not well documented. You can create macro files for a class (Ranger.prf), for a race (Half-Elf.prf) as well as for a player (Billsey.prf).