On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:22 AM, <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, August 1, 2010 12:20 am, nir.tzachar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> From: Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> >> Remove the old hotkeys feature, and replace by a regular string search. >> From nconfig help: >> >> >> Pressing '/' triggers search mode. nconfig does regular string match, >> case insensitive, starting at the begining of each menu line. Pressing >> Enter highlights the next match, Backspace removes one character from >> the match string. Pressing either '/' again or ESC exits search mode. >> >> Rebind the '/' key (which allowed to search for symbols) to F8 >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> scripts/kconfig/nconf.c | 261 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- >> scripts/kconfig/nconf.h | 3 +- 2 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 139 >> deletions(-) > > > A few other comments: > > These help text lines should end with a period: > > Pressing SpaceBar toggles between the above options > > <Esc> always leaves the current window > Sure. > The F-key help along the bottom line should be forced to fit > into 80 columns. F9 (exit) especially should be visible. They were, however I think that the symbol search (F-8) kind of ruind it. I'll shorten its name. > > This F3 should be F5: > > Press <Esc>, <F3> or <left-arrow> to go back one menu, 10x. > > How about we make nconfig the default in linux-next > so that it will be used more? I would love to see that. Let me finalize a patch which properly supports searching (based on Sam's input) so as to remove the current upper case ugliness. Cheers. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
