linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v8 1/1] mconf: global i-search in menu prompts

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:57:12 +0200
From:   Dirk Gouders <dirk@...ders.net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v8 1/1] mconf: global i-search in menu prompts

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:

> On 06/20/2018 11:55 AM, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 06/20/2018 01:42 AM, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Operation
>>>> ---------
>>>> The TAB key is reserved to toggle the focus between menu and bottons.
>>>> Focus is on the buttons if one of the buttens (the active one) is
>>>> hightlighted, otherwise it is on the menu.
>>>>
>>>> When the focus is on the buttons, mconf operates as before with the
>>>> exception of the TAB key.
>>>>
>>>> When the focus is on the menu, mconf operates in i-search mode and the
>>>> following input has special meaning:
>>>>
>>>> * <\> (backslash) can be used to search for other occurences of an
>>>>   already entered string.  On empty search strings, nothing happens.
>>>>
>>>> * Any other printable character than backslash and '\n' is appended to
>>>>   the current search string and a match is searched for.  If a match
>>>>   is found, it is immediately navigated to.
>>>
>>> About that paragraph above:  I tried to search for "fs-cache", as in:
>>>
>>> config FSCACHE_DEBUG
>>> 	bool "Debug FS-Cache"
>>>
>>> but i-search does not allow me to enter a '-' character.  Seems odd to me.
>> 
>> Hi Randy,
>> 
>> thanks for all your testing.
>> 
>> '-' and '+' previously had the same meaning as <KEY_UP>, <KEY_DOWN>,
>> respectively.  If you are on the top menu item and press '-' there is
>> nothing to scroll up so it appears as if the pressed key wasn't
>> processed.
>> 
>> I-search should add those characters to the pattern but I broke that two
>> or three versions before when I fixed another issue.
>> 
>> I will add this to my list of test cases so this won't happen again.
>> 
>> Dirk
>> 
>> 
>>> Still doing other testing...
>
> I haven't hit any other issues.

Thank you for testing!
The issue concerning '-' and '+' I will fix.

Dirk