Re: menu loop (patch)

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"Yoshinori K. Okuji" [okuji@enbug.org] kirjoitti: 
> On Saturday 19 July 2008 21:58:09 Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:34:46AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > > [...]  We could support a setting such as "set menuwrap=1" which
> > > would enable this feature for users who care about it.
> >
> > Isn't this a bit overkill?  The time spent adding this config option vastly
> > exceeds any time that could be saved by having or not having menu wrap.
> >
> > > Actually my graphical menu currently *does* wrap around, I guess it
> > > seemed logical to me at the time I wrote the code!  8-)  As you can
> > > tell, I am not firmly set on either wrapping or not wrapping.
> >
> > Same here..  my concern with taking arbitrary decisions is, when someone
> > comes later and asks to have it reverted, do we accept the request, and
> > otherwise what rationale do we give her? :-)
> 
> Personally, I prefer no wrapping, because it is easier for me to use only 
> Up/Down arrow keys, yet locate entries easily. Since I am lazy, I don't want 
> to look for Home or End (some keyboards really suck for them!), so when I 
> just want to jump to somewhere near to the end, I only keep pushing Down, and 
> wait for the cursor to stop. And, this is consistent with Dired mode in 
> Emacs, Directory Listing in VIM, and, of course, with GRUB Legacy.

Hi All,

I also like no wrapping mode. But lets assume we have nice graphical menu with "cylinder" of menu entries that roll when you press key up/down. In here it would be really convenient to have wraparound eg. user cant event think any other way here. But this is something I would put into theme configuration file.

Theme could be also loadable for text menu that describes colours and such. We could default to non-wrapping as that has been our way for long time. If user wants to override this in theme then they are free to do so.

In every case I would prefer that home and end keys would go to always to start and to end of the list. Page up/down would rely a bit for wrapping setting so they can clamp to list edges if needed.

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen