WASD movement for the player

While W/A/S/D are held, the controlled creature gets a plain walk order every
engine tick toward its position plus the pressed screen direction, as the
mouse does while its button is held (every mouse event re-sends a walk to the
cursor point); releasing sends the target-less stop order of a released mouse
button. W/A/S/D key events are swallowed before the hotkeys see them; their
old actions move to G (action slot 3), V (pick up nearby) and K (save game
window) for now, configurable in [wasd].

docs/wasd.md: order format, measured mouse behaviour, hotkey map.
docs/todo.md: better pathfinder; final bindings for the moved hotkeys.
re::ConfigString for string settings.

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# WASD movement (`src/mods/wasd.cpp`)
## How the game moves the hero
Movement is a creature order: `cEvent_creature` (vtable `0x88e95c`, 0x44
bytes), command 4 = walk, sent with `cEngine::SendCreatureOrder` (`0x6170d0`,
`(creature, event)`), which snaps a ground target to a walkable point and
passes the order to `creature->vf18` (`cCreature::ReceiveOrder`, `0x52e400`).
| Offset | Field |
|---|---|
| +4 | command (4 walk, 0x105 ...) |
| +0x10 | target object id (attacks) |
| +0x14 | 2: x, y are a ground point; 0: no target |
| +0x18 / +0x1c | ground point (world units, same as creature +0x1c / +0x20) |
| +0x20 | 1: re-aim while a mouse button is held; 2: skip target snapping |
The controlled creature's object id is at `cEngine+0x13c`; objects come from
`cObjectManager::GetObject` (`0x5fe060`, manager `*0xad3bc0`), cast with
`__RTDynamicCast` to `cCreature`. Hero state: `+0xfc` action mode (2 while
following a held mouse button), `+0x150` movement (1 walking, 2 arriving,
0 standing).
Mouse, measured with an order log:
- click (`cEngine::HandleMouseButton` `0x617360`): one walk order to the
ground point, then engine flag `+0x54 |= 0x10` (button held);
- while held: every mouse event re-sends a plain walk order (+0x20 = 0) to the
point under the cursor, dozens per tick; the hero stays in mode 2 and walks
smoothly. `cEngine::Tick` (`0x60f1d0`, 10 Hz) additionally sends a re-aim
order (+0x20 = 1) per tick after 0.4 s of walking;
- release after > 0.5 s: a walk order without target (+0x14 = 0), which stops
the hero in place.
## What the mod does
Every `cEngine::Tick`, while W/A/S/D are held (and no text field has the
focus, no mouse button is held): a plain walk order to hero position +
direction x 300 world units (about a cursor's distance). Screen directions in
world axes: up (-1,-1), down (1,1), left (-1,1), right (1,-1); combinations are
summed and normalised. All keys released: the target-less stop order.
Dead ends, for the record: re-aim orders (+0x20 = 1) on their own stop the
hero after two orders; far targets (2000 units) are rejected or followed
badly; targets near the stepwise-updated position make it arrive and stop.
## Hotkeys
Keys reach the game as `cEvent_key` (category 4; key at +6/+8, modifiers at
+0xa) through the kernel queue to `cEngine::ReceiveEvent` (`0x618130`), which
offers them to `cUI_Manager::ReceiveEvent` (`0x757120`) first. Both compare
`toupper(key)` (`0x84aa86`). The mod swallows W/A/S/D there (auto-repeat events
would trigger the hotkeys) and rewrites the replacement keys into the old
letters; the temporary bindings are listed in `docs/todo.md`.
Hotkeys found: engine A (pick up nearby), P (pause), Q/W/E/R/B/Space
(`cEngine::UseActionSlot`), ^ (console), Esc, Ctrl+B/F/X/Z (Z quicksave); UI
manager C F H I L M N O S T (S save game window). Arrow keys in
`cEngine::ScrollInput` (`0x610650`) walk object #2 or scroll the camera; not
reachable in normal play.