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Message-ID: <4C504FBB.3020600@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:41:47 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	trapdoor6@...il.com
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>, trivial@...nel.org,
	Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Small typo in kernel [current source from git] .config option

(adding Nir, who wrote nconfig, to CC).

On 28.7.2010 14:17, trapDoor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
>> respectively). Unfortunatelly, there doesn't seem to be a way to
>> highlight single letters in an ncurses menu, hence the strange
>> cApitalization :(.
> 
> I wonder how is this resolved in other console applications such as
> Midnight Commander. Does it have its own implementation for
> highlighting characters (it uses coloured mnemonics e.g. in menus) or
> it's based on some common Linux/Unix library which perhaps could be
> used for the nconfig as well?

The problem is that nconfig uses the higher-level ncurses libraries
libmenu and libpanel, which make some things easier, but aren't as
flexible as using ncurses directly. Patches are welcome of course :-).

Michal
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