Endless repetition of log messages that take up almost exactly one line

[ToxicFrog]

This seems to happen primarily with "$shopkeeper offers $money for your $item. Do you want to sell it?" and "You have a little trouble lifting the $item" messages; an easy way to reproduce is get burdened and then run around picking stuff up until you grab something with exactly the right name length. Note that all of those messages appeared instantly as soon as I chose to drop the mythril coat, and once this happens it won't respond to ynaq to select an answer.

You can escape from the endless message spam by hitting esc a few times, which is usually safe if you're being prompted; resizing the terminal or turning off perm_invent temporarily are also valid workarounds.

[moon-chilled]

Is this fixed with https://github.com/ToxicFrog/slashem9/commit/d5b15eee399485fce234b29e4a31ff1e88106b9c (the linespace tweak)?

[ToxicFrog]

Nope. I didn't really expect it to; the linespace change produces the same result where border_space == 1 (which is the case here). The change is just so that it will continue to do the right thing if border_space changes.

I found the >> fix while I was in there poking around trying to find a fix for this, but no luck as yet.

I came up with what seems to be a decently reliable repro, though: roll wizard (or some other class that starts with a bunch of items with relatively long names, like spellbooks), then stand on a staircase and drop your whole inventory, likely triggering the "the %s hits another object and falls down the stairs!" message.