Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:45:42 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: escape key] |
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Hi!
> >>>From: James Lockie <bjlockie@lockie.ca> > >>>To: linux-x86_64@vger.kernel.org > >>>Subject: escape key > >>>Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:57:57 -0500 > >>> > >>>I can't use the escape key to exit a menu with make > >>>menuconfig on kernel-2.6.19 or .1 > >>>It works on 2.6.18. :-( > >>> > > > >Is this a problem? > > > >You can exit a menu by selecting <Exit> and pressing > >Enter > >or (as the help text at the top of the screen says:) > >pressing <Esc><Esc> (2 times). Yes, pressing <Esc> one > >time > >and then waiting for 1-2 seconds used to exit a menu. > > > >One could argue that it has been "fixed" to match the > >help text.
> Two escapes works now. :-)
Actually could we fix our consoles, somehow, to make esc usable? Having important key like esc unusable on consoles is quite ugly.
ioctl(console_fd, AM_I_IN_THE_MIDDLE_OF_ESCAPE_SEQUENCE_?) would do the trick at least for vt consoles... Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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/
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