From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: peter@cordes.ca Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:29:23 -0400 To: Karel Zak Cc: Benno Schulenberg , Util-Linux Subject: Re: cfdisk's input fields behave awkwardly (in utf8 locale) Message-id: <20150202122923.GA3933@cordes.ca> References: <1422799326.1853638.221575473.7DCCA1B0@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20150202121126.GL16162@ws.net.home> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-reply-to: <20150202121126.GL16162@ws.net.home> From: Peter Cordes List-ID: On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 03:02:06PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > [...cfdisk...] > > prompted for a partition size, would put the cursor at the start > > of the suggested value, and hitting any other key than Enter > > would erase this value. That is nice and desirable behaviour. > > Could that be restored? > > It would be better to implement full one line editor with support for > all basic keys and with ability to insert and erase chars on > arbitrary position with in the string... v2.27 :-) Maybe link with GNU readline, to avoid reinventing the wheel. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@cor , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC