Re: [PATCH] nconfig: add search support

[Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:22 AM,  <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> On Sun, August 1, 2010 12:20 am, nir.tzachar@gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> Remove the old hotkeys feature, and replace by a regular string search.
>> From nconfig help:
>>
>>
>> Pressing '/' triggers search mode. nconfig does regular string match,
>> case insensitive, starting at the begining of each menu line. Pressing
>> Enter highlights the next match, Backspace removes one character from
>> the match string. Pressing either '/' again or ESC exits search mode.
>>
>> Rebind the '/' key (which allowed to search for symbols) to F8
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> scripts/kconfig/nconf.c |  261
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>> scripts/kconfig/nconf.h |    3 +- 2 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 139
>> deletions(-)
>
>
> A few other comments:
>
> These help text lines should end with a period:
>
>  Pressing SpaceBar toggles between the above options
>
>  <Esc> always leaves the current window
>

Sure.

> The F-key help along the bottom line should be forced to fit
> into 80 columns.  F9 (exit) especially should be visible.

They were, however I think that the symbol search (F-8) kind of ruind
it. I'll shorten its name.

>
> This F3 should be F5:
>
>  Press <Esc>, <F3> or <left-arrow> to go back one menu,

10x.

>
> How about we make nconfig the default in linux-next
> so that it will be used more?

I would love to see that. Let me finalize a patch which properly
supports searching (based on Sam's input) so as to remove the current
upper case ugliness.

Cheers.