linux-kernel - Re: [Fwd: escape key]

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Date:	Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:45:42 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	James Lockie <bjlockie@...kie.ca>
Cc:	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: escape key]

Hi!

> >>>From: James Lockie <bjlockie@...kie.ca>
> >>>To: linux-x86_64@...r.kernel.org
> >>>Subject: escape key
> >>>Date: 	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:57:57 -0500
> >>>
> >>>I can't use the escape key to exit a menu with make 
> >>>menuconfig on kernel-2.6.19 or .1
> >>>It works on 2.6.18. :-(
> >>>      
> >
> >Is this a problem?
> >
> >You can exit a menu by selecting <Exit> and pressing 
> >Enter
> >or (as the help text at the top of the screen says:)
> >pressing <Esc><Esc> (2 times).  Yes, pressing <Esc> one 
> >time
> >and then waiting for 1-2 seconds used to exit a menu.
> >
> >One could argue that it has been "fixed" to match the 
> >help text.

> Two escapes works now. :-)

Actually could we fix our consoles, somehow, to make esc usable?
Having important key like esc unusable on consoles is quite ugly.

ioctl(console_fd, AM_I_IN_THE_MIDDLE_OF_ESCAPE_SEQUENCE_?) would do
the trick at least for vt consoles...
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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