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Author Topic: What does the Ctrl-s prompt do?  (Read 1701 times)

HavingPhun

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What does the Ctrl-s prompt do?
« on: September 23, 2014, 10:52:45 am »
I had noticed this a few times after accidently pressing the key combination, works on both 34.11 and 40.XX, with or without DFhack. Just press Ctrl-s at anytime during the game and a text box pops up in the middle of the screen. I have only tested it in the main menu and in fortress mode, works in both. It should work in all other places too. I have only tested typing a few things into it and none have done anything. Is this something new or am I missing something obvious?

I would guess that it is some sort of debug console, which could be quite useful and fun.
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smjjames

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Re: What does the Ctrl-s prompt do?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2014, 10:55:15 am »
I have no idea either. I'm guessing some sort of control panel thing which Toady One uses for dev work and left it available for some reason.
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Re: What does the Ctrl-s prompt do?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2014, 11:13:01 am »
Ctrl+s saves your macros.
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smjjames

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Re: What does the Ctrl-s prompt do?
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2014, 11:19:14 am »
Oh that one, I was thinking of that bar that shows accross the screen with a specific key.
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HavingPhun

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Re: What does the Ctrl-s prompt do?
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2014, 11:29:45 am »
Quote from: burned on September 23, 2014, 11:13:01 am
Ctrl+s saves your macros.
Oh, thank you. I knew it had to be something like that.
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LeoCean

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Re: What does the Ctrl-s prompt do?
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2014, 03:39:12 pm »
Quote from: smjjames on September 23, 2014, 11:19:14 am
Oh that one, I was thinking of that bar that shows accross the screen with a specific key.

That is the droid you are looking for.

(that is the saving macro bar which you type into to save your macro)
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LordUbik

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Re: What does the Ctrl-s prompt do?
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2014, 05:12:00 pm »
Yes, CTRL-R to record a macro, CTRL-S to save it, CTRL-L to load it and CTRL-P to use it... i simply love them, they're such a time saver!
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