Small typo in kernel [current source from git] .config option
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From: trapDoor on 27 Jul 2010 13:20 On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam(a)ravnborg.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:46:45PM +0100, trapDoor wrote: >> Hello, >> I've just got lucky and found this little typo under "Power management >> and ACPI options" �---> "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power >> Interface) Support": >> hArdware Error Device >> >> Here is my fix: >> Hardware Error Device >> :) >> >> BTW, first time I've used nconfig instead of menuconfig. And I like it. > > The capital "A" is nconfigs way to tell you that you can use > "a" as shortcut to reach the menu. > > � � � �Sam > Rignt! So it's just a 'mnemonic' and only appears like that in nconfig (I see that now). I'd guess that if I've ever made any use of mnemonics here. Thanks for clarifying and sorry for making needless 'noise'. -- Regards trapDoor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Michal Marek on 28 Jul 2010 07:10 On 27.7.2010 19:12, trapDoor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam(a)ravnborg.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:46:45PM +0100, trapDoor wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I've just got lucky and found this little typo under "Power management >>> and ACPI options" ---> "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power >>> Interface) Support": >>> hArdware Error Device >>> >>> Here is my fix: >>> Hardware Error Device >>> :) >>> >>> BTW, first time I've used nconfig instead of menuconfig. And I like it. >> >> The capital "A" is nconfigs way to tell you that you can use >> "a" as shortcut to reach the menu. > > Rignt! So it's just a 'mnemonic' and only appears like that in nconfig > (I see that now). I'd guess that if I've ever made any use of > mnemonics here. For completeness - This affects any option that starts with H, Y, M or N, as these letters are taken (they stand for Help, Yes, Module and No, respectively). Unfortunatelly, there doesn't seem to be a way to highlight single letters in an ncurses menu, hence the strange cApitalization :(. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: trapDoor on 28 Jul 2010 08:20 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek(a)suse.cz> wrote: > On 27.7.2010 19:12, trapDoor wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam(a)ravnborg.org> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:46:45PM +0100, trapDoor wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> I've just got lucky and found this little typo under "Power management >>>> and ACPI options" �---> "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power >>>> Interface) Support": >>>> hArdware Error Device >>>> >>>> Here is my fix: >>>> Hardware Error Device >>>> :) >>>> >>>> BTW, first time I've used nconfig instead of menuconfig. And I like it. >>> >>> The capital "A" is nconfigs way to tell you that you can use >>> "a" as shortcut to reach the menu. >> >> Rignt! So it's just a 'mnemonic' and only appears like that in nconfig >> (I see that now). I'd guess that if I've ever made any use of >> mnemonics here. > > For completeness - This affects any option that starts with H, Y, M or > N, as these letters are taken (they stand for Help, Yes, Module and No, > respectively). Unfortunatelly, there doesn't seem to be a way to > highlight single letters in an ncurses menu, hence the strange > cApitalization :(. > > Michal > 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? Unless MC depends on any part of X env. but I don't think it does. On the project's official website it says: "Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells." So either ncurses or s-lang, no mention about other dependences in their documentation. Also by looking at some forums, when people have problems with installing MC it's usually due to missing s-lang -- Regards trapDoor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Michal Marek on 28 Jul 2010 11:50 (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 <mmarek(a)suse.cz> 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 :-). Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Sam Ravnborg on 28 Jul 2010 15:00 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 <mmarek(a)suse.cz> 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(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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