mpereira
More efficient game controls
Just found this! Great that someone made a Terminal Solitaire, but there are some immediate issues:
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Most importantly: Too many keystrokes for common tasks. Look at Solitaire on the iPod Nano 3rd generation for how to improve this. Like, if you click a red 3, and there is a black 4 somewhere, automatically move the 3 there.
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For clarity, while moving a card, actually move the card visually, not just the cursor. Actually, get rid of the cursor, and instead highlight the focused card using bright ANSI colors.
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Let the Enter key do the same as Space.
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When on last column in lower area and pressing "right", move focus to first column in upper area. (And vice versa for similar situations.)
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I know this is not part of the original game design, but rather than having a deck where you pick cards one after the other, you could just lay out that deck in the bottom, cards side by side, where you could see all of them at once and cursor between them to pick a card. (This is not cheating, just saves you from having to pass through the whole deck to get around to a particular card.)
Any interest in fixing any of this?
