Portalborn · published
Hello everyone!
A recent update introduced a serious problem with the command line: Backspace could no longer delete a typo while you were typing.
On the default controls, Backspace is also the shortcut for returning focus to the terminal. After that shortcut was added, the game was intercepting the key even when you were already typing in the command line.
Worse, every intercepted press could print “Huh? That command makes no sense here,” making it look like the game was rejecting your input.
This was introduced by one of my recent updates, and I'm sorry. In a game built around typing commands, breaking something as fundamental as Backspace is a major usability bug, and it should not have reached the live build.
It's fixed now.
While your cursor is in the command line, only numpad keys can act as shortcuts. Everything else is reserved for typing.
That also fixes a broader version of the same problem: if you had rebound a shortcut to a letter key, that letter could disappear from your commands whenever you typed it.
Numpad movement still works exactly as before, including while you're in the middle of typing a command.
And for anyone typing in Chinese, shortcuts will no longer activate while you're composing Chinese characters.
Thank you to Satur9 for the clear report. It gave me exactly what I needed to reproduce the problem and get this fixed quickly.
And again, I'm sorry this one made it into the game.
— TheHand