| Printable ASCII characters | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~ | ! | @ | # | $ | % | ^ | & | * | ( | ) | _ | + |
| ` | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | - | = |
| Ww | Ee | Rr | Tt | Yy | Uu | Ii | Oo | Pp | {[ | }] | |\ | |
| Aa | Ss | Dd | Ff | Gg | Hh | Jj | Kk | Ll | : | ; | " | ' |
| Zz | Xx | Cc | Vv | Bb | Nn | Mm | < | , | > | . | ? | / |
| ␠ | ||||||||||||
- Not to be confused with slash.
- The backslash \ character represents a throne.
- \ is also used for drawing rays (e.g. breath attacks and zapped wands).
- During the game, press \ to view your current knowledge about identified items.
- Note: With a french-canadian keyboard layout, pressing the backslash command won't work as result because it require a tricky manipulation that do not process right in the common windows terminal <Unknown command 'M-#'.> "(AltGr and the "~ '" key for \), also the Nhraykey.dll or subkeyvalue won't do it and there no patch about it either. To solve this you might change for a US layout and restart nethack or play on a linux tty(it handles the french-canadian layout correctly) or play on a graphical port.
Do not confuse the backslash \ with the forward slash /.
