Loading the same gamefile should load preferences, even with a different character name

[Big Al]

For OS X, possibly other platforms:

I like to give all my characters a new name in succession (Big Al, Big Al II, Big Al III, Big Al the Bold, etc.) each time I start a new character. In my first game, I saved the preferences as the default Big_Al.prf. In subsequent games, it's looking for a pref file called Big_Al_II.prf, Big_Al_III.prf, etc, so I have to load the old file by hand each time.

It would be a lot better to base the name that the preferences is looking for on the name of the *file*, not the *character*. I always load the same game file each time I start a new game (to preserve monster memory) so it would make sense to load the same prefs from that name too.

[magnate]

Agreed. I'd also like to see race- and class- specific pref files auto-loaded properly (I'm not sure whether they're supposed to, but they don't). Less important for races, but essential for classes - all my rogues have a certain set of macros, priests different, warriors different etc. On a related note, can autoinscriptions be saved in a pref file instead of in the save file? These are also mainly class-dependent for me.

[magnate]

See also http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=2937