linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: menuconfig: remove jump

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Message-ID: <CAJFTR8QgYykuEq_AkODEWPUYXncKgRBHOncxT=ypZTQODkyarw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 1 Jul 2023 00:38:33 -0400
From:   Jesse T <mr.bossman075@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: menuconfig: remove jump_key::index

On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 12:23 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Jesse,
>
> On 6/30/23 21:08, Jesse T wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 12:03 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> You do not need to remember the index of each jump key because you can
> >> count it up after a key is pressed.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> >> ---
>
> >
> > One slight off-topic question.
> > The names of the menu-based config programs have names similar to their
> > corresponding file gconfig ('gconf'), xconfig ('qconf'), menuconfig ('mconf'),
> > and nconfig ('nconf'). The only exceptions to this one-letter naming are mconfig
> > is not memuconfig and qconfig isn't xconfig. Would it be possible to
> > add an alias
> > to fix this?
> >
> > Side-side note config isn't in the docs.
>
> I'm not following what you mean here.
> Are you referring to 'make config'?

Typo sorry, `make gconfig`
It's not listed at the top Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst and only briefly
mentioned at the bottom.

>
> So: what documentation is missing and where would it be found?
>
> thanks.
> --
> ~Randy