Re: [PATCH v1] docs: kbuild: Document search jump feature

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On 8/4/23 20:44, Jesse Taube wrote:
> Menuconfig has a feature where you can "press the key in the (#) prefix
> to jump directly to that location. You will be returned to the current
> search results after exiting this new menu."
> 
> This feature is poorly documented,
> so add it to the kconfig.rst documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Taube <Mr.Bossman075@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks.


More below...

> ---
>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
> index 5967c79c3baa..463914a7fdec 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
> @@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ Searching in menuconfig:
>  	first (and in alphabetical order), then come all other symbols,
>  	sorted in alphabetical order.
>  
> +	In this menu, pressing the key in the (#) prefix will jump
> +	directly to that location. You will be returned to the current
> +	search results after exiting this new menu.
> +

In menuconfig, exiting returns to the correct location in the search output,
but in nconfig, exiting always returns to the top of the search output, not
to where the (#) was displayed on the search output screen.
This is annoying.
Is this something that you have possibly already fixed?

>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>  User interface options for 'menuconfig'
> @@ -262,6 +266,10 @@ Searching in nconfig:
>  	F8 (SymSearch) searches the configuration symbols for the
>  	given string or regular expression (regex).
>  
> +	In the SymSearch, pressing the key in the (#) prefix will
> +	jump directly to that location. You will be returned to the
> +	current search results after exiting this new menu.
> +
>  NCONFIG_MODE
>  ------------
>  This mode shows all sub-menus in one large tree.

-- 
~Randy



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