# Backslash

Printable ASCII characters

~

!

@

#

$

%

^

&amp;

*

(

)

_

+

space

`

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

0

-

=

{

}

 |

Qq

Ww

Ee

Rr

Tt

Yy

Uu

Ii

Oo

Pp

:

"

[

]

\

Aa

Ss

Dd

Ff

Gg

Hh

Jj

Kk

Ll

?

;

'

Ctrl

Zz

Xx

Cc

Vv

Bb

Nn

Mm

,

.

/

&lt;

&gt;

Alt

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 'm-#'.="" command=""> "(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 handle the french-canadian layout correctly) or play on a graphical port.
Pressing \ at a menu deselects all items on the current page.  Supported by tty and curses interfaces, see menu controls.
Do not confuse the backslash \ with the forward slash /.

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