Re: cfdisk's input fields behave awkwardly (in utf8 locale)

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Karel Zak wrote on Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:37:36 +0100:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 08:29:23AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
>> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 03:02:06PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>> > > [...cfdisk...]
>> > > 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?
>> >
>> >  It would be better to implement full one line editor with support for
>> >  all basic keys and with ability to insert and erase chars on
>> >  arbitrary position with in the string... v2.27 :-)
>>
>>  Maybe link with GNU readline, to avoid reinventing the wheel.

> yep, and maybe for all fdisks, but it would be probably nice to have
> it optional (--with-readline), [...]

Absolutely!

Ingo
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