Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: CML2 1.9.6 is available | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:32:05 +1100 |
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:05:06 -0500, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote: >Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>: >> One niggle, some strings for kuild 2.5 are longer than 30 characters, >> cml2 restricts the string length in make menuconfig. Only menuconfig >> has this restriction, not oldconfig nor xconfig. Can the limit be >> removed, or at least changed to $ROWS-n which would adjust to screen >> size? > >The only place I see a limit of 30 is in the query_popup function used >for querying for things like search strings, symbol names in the go-to >command, etc. in menuconfig. > >The answer is: maybe. The underlying problem here is that the prompt >string and the string editing area both eat screen width. 30 is about >the largest limit that doesn't blow up the configurator when combined >with the longest prompt strings.
This works for me.
--- cml2-1.9.6/cmlconfigure.py Sun Dec 9 19:27:31 2001 +++ 2.4.16-kbuild-2.5/scripts/cmlconfigure.py Wed Dec 12 17:23:01 2001 @@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ def query_popup(self, prompt, initval=None): "Pop up a window to accept a string." - maxsymwidth = 30 # Constant + maxsymwidth = self.columns - len(prompt) - 2 if initval and len(initval) > maxsymwidth: self.help_popup("PRESSANY", (lang["TOOLONG"],), beep=1) return initval Warning, that is my first bit of Python code (Oh no, now I'm contaminated too :-).
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