Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:55:05 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Small typo in kernel [current source from git] .config option |
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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@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
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