"LOOK AT object THROUGH BINOCULARS" and "FOCUS BINOCULARS ON object" aren't always the same

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"LOOK AT object THROUGH BINOCULARS" and "FOCUS BINOCULARS ON object" aren't always the same #73

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

>LOOK
Paved Road

Your eyes follow the instrument lines northwest, where a cluster of shelters and
searchlights is visible on the horizon. The paved road continues in that
direction, and also leads southwest.

An abandoned jeep is parked nearby.

>LOOK AT SHELTERS THROUGH BINOCULARS
You focus the binoculars on the shelters.

Peering closely, you can see that the shelters are heavily manned.

>FOCUS BINOCULARS ON SHELTER
Little can be seen from where you're standing.

This is probably because NBUNKERS-F gets to handle the FOCUS-ON action through this:

           (<INTBL? ,PRSA ,SEEVERBS ,NSVERBS>
        <CANT-SEE-MUCH>
        <RTRUE>)

So V-FOCUS-ON never gets to reroute the action as LOOK-THRU instead. I'll make a list of where this matters later.

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

The objects you can look at through the binoculars

ME, HANDS, FEET, POCKET, GROUND, EYES, ANKLE, MOUTH, HEAD
SBUNK, SBENTRY
DTOWER
NBUNKERS
SPOT, SLIGHT
GDESERT, DMOUNTS, FHILLS

Objects you can't focus on:

MOUTH, HEAD
NBUNKERS

I think NBUNKERS is the only one worth fixing.