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Message-ID: <20081216211009.GA2041@ucw.cz>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:10:10 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To: euphoria@...ox.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: losing a menuconfig session to a typo
On Mon 2008-12-15 13:03:28, euphoria@...ox.com wrote:
> It's easy to accidentally lose a menuconfig session. Scenarios start with a
> user being accustomed to hitting [right-arrow][return] to exit from a typical
> menu. Perhaps the user prefers his underutilized numeric keypad over adding to
> the beating [escape] takes. Scenarios finish with the user accidentally
> issuing [right-arrow][return] to "Do you wish to save? <Yes> <No>". I only
> lost a quick change, but it's easy to imagine how a few hours of menuconfig
> time might go away. "It'll just take a few minutes to whip my distro's kernel
> into shape." Yeah right. Four hours of guesswork and research later, you're
> tired, thinking about the make command to follow, [right-arrow][return] as
> usual, wait! no! damndamndamn!, yer snookered.
>
> There are a variety of simple ways to address this. First, change the menu.
> Swapping the order of the <Yes> and <No> would be begging for even more
> trouble. However, the <Yes>/<No> decision could be made a <Yes>/<Maybe>/<No>
> decision. This leaves <Yes>, the predominant choice, in place. <Maybe>, in
> the disputed position, could simply present the same menu. Someone might even
> have a little well-deserved fun with <Maybe> menus. This doesn't
seem all that
Too ugly to live. But maybe periodically saving config to
.config.autosave once in 5 minutes...?
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