Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:02:25 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: Small typo in kernel [current source from git] .config option |
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On 27.7.2010 19:12, trapDoor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@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
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