Re: cfdisk's input fields behave awkwardly (in utf8 locale)

From: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>
Cc: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>,
	Util-Linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cfdisk's input fields behave awkwardly (in utf8 locale)
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:22:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D0E7AF.7010601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150202123736.GN16162@ws.net.home>


On 02/02/2015 01:37 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 08:29:23AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
>> 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.
> yep, and maybe for all fdisks, but it would be probably nice to have
> it optional (--with-readline), and without readline keep it simple and
> stupid.
>
>      Karel
>
Working on it,
got {s,}fdisk already readline-d

Cheers,
Ondrej