Re: [PATCH 0/6] menuconfig: jump to search results

From: Benjamin Poirier
Date: Tue Jul 31 2012 - 09:17:56 EST


On 2012/07/31 09:57, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:22:12PM -0400, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> > It's against linux-next, which already contains some patches for
> > menuconfig.
>
> Ok, applying against the linux-next from today succeeds. And they seem
> to work, I can search for CONFIG_* stuff and then go straight to the
> results.
>
> A couple more observations:
>
> * The numbering in the search results looks kinda strange and
> non-intuitive IMHO. Would it be possible to use the ncurses cursor to
> iterate over the search results like one does in the normal menus? I.e.,
> the horizontal bar which highlights the item with the background color
> or whatever - can it be moved up and down with the arrow keys through
> the search results too?

Further patches are welcome ;) It's not a trivial difference though.
The "horizontal bar" is not a curses concept, it's implemented via the
menubox lxdialog whereas search results are currently presented via a
textbox lxdialog.

>
> * when searching for "DELAY" for example, I get results without numbers
> to which I can't jump to:
>
> ...
> â Symbol: DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE [=0]
> â Type : integer
> â
> â
> â Symbol: IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80 [=0]
> â Type : integer
> ...
>
> maybe because they don't have "---help---" section?

Because they don't have a prompt - they don't appear in any menu at all.
In that case there's nowhere to jump to. That's why those symbols don't
get a number.

>
> In those cases, you probably want to hide those from the search results?
>
> Other than that it looks good and I'd say we need more menuconfig
> functionality like that which eases/speeds up working with that thing :).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
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