Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751264Ab0G1SzM (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:12 -0400 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:36602 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750876Ab0G1SzG (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:55:05 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Michal Marek Cc: trapdoor6@gmail.com, LKML , "Justin P. Mattock" , trivial@kernel.org, Nir Tzachar Subject: Re: Small typo in kernel [current source from git] .config option Message-ID: <20100728185505.GF29266@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <20100727165549.GC26649@merkur.ravnborg.org> <4C500E41.40708@suse.cz> <4C504FBB.3020600@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C504FBB.3020600@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 31 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 05:41:47PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > (adding Nir, who wrote nconfig, to CC). > > On 28.7.2010 14:17, trapDoor wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Michal Marek wrote: > >> respectively). Unfortunatelly, there doesn't seem to be a way to > >> highlight single letters in an ncurses menu, hence the strange > >> cApitalization :(. > > > > I wonder how is this resolved in other console applications such as > > Midnight Commander. Does it have its own implementation for > > highlighting characters (it uses coloured mnemonics e.g. in menus) or > > it's based on some common Linux/Unix library which perhaps could be > > used for the nconfig as well? > > The problem is that nconfig uses the higher-level ncurses libraries > libmenu and libpanel, which make some things easier, but aren't as > flexible as using ncurses directly. Patches are welcome of course :-). The capitilazing is the main reason why I have not recommended nconfig to be default. And I doubt the shortcut letters are used that often. One idea could be to drop the shortcut for the individual menus. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/