Hi, In the current cfdisk, when making a new partition in a free space, the program prompts for the partition size, with a suggested value already filled in and the cursor sitting at the end of that value. If one tries to use the cursor-left key to edit the value, in a utf8 locale this produces the character Ą instead of a bell. (The same happens when cfdisk asks for the name of a script file.) To reproduce: # LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 ./cfdisk Anyway, if the cursor keys would not produce weird characters, and they can't be made to work normally (that is: to go left and right), then the only way to change the suggested value is to use the Backspace key. This is awkward. The older cfdisk, when it prompted for a partition size, would put the cursor at the start of the suggested value, and hitting any other key than Enter would erase this value. That is nice and desirable behaviour. Could that be restored? Also, upon startup the old cfdisk would put the cursor on the menu item "Quit", showing the user the most important thing right at the start: how to get out. This is extra useful when cfdisk is localized to another language where the word for quit doesn't start with a Q. Could this initial menu-item selection be restored? Something quite different: the man page of cfdisk says that it is possible to load an sfdisk-compatible script into cfdisk. But how? Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
