From Miss Gosling onward, I've found the default GO TO/FIND output way too verbose—it prints a full LOOK description for every room you pass through, which can be an enormous amount of text. As a result, I've made some changes to my personal library to only print the room names until you get to the final one.
I think this would be a worthwhile adjustment to the library—perhaps with a setting authors can enable or disable, akin to (library links enabled). The compile-time optimizer will prevent any significant cost for such an option.
(As a side effect, this would allow bringing back BRIEF and SUPERBRIEF modes, but I don't think anyone has wanted those since the era of teletypes.)
From Miss Gosling onward, I've found the default GO TO/FIND output way too verbose—it prints a full LOOK description for every room you pass through, which can be an enormous amount of text. As a result, I've made some changes to my personal library to only print the room names until you get to the final one.
I think this would be a worthwhile adjustment to the library—perhaps with a setting authors can enable or disable, akin to
(library links enabled). The compile-time optimizer will prevent any significant cost for such an option.(As a side effect, this would allow bringing back BRIEF and SUPERBRIEF modes, but I don't think anyone has wanted those since the era of teletypes.)