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Subject: Re: [Suggestion] LILO-like direct menu item access && scripting
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Marc-Jano Knopp wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 at 10:38 (+0100), Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thursday 10 February 2005 22:51, Marc-Jano Knopp wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>But as your mail left a few things open (Select or execute? Normal
>>>keys or keys with modifier? Single-letter-keys or strings?), the
>>>discussion about this would have had to be continued anyway. :-)
>>>      
>>>
>>I prefer to execute it when a shortcut key is pressed. Why not?
>>    
>>
>
>Because then it would not be possible to edit menu items blindly.
>For example, I could not blindly add boot parameters to the Linux
>kernel (runlevel, root=<whatever>, etc.) to override the default
>settings (which I do, indeed, e.g. for my SCSI testing machine
>which varying disks with varying partition layout connected, so that
>fixed menu items don't help).
>
>
>  
>
I think the best choice to do it is to bind a key like C-p to add 
parameters to the entry. Then theese parameters will be accessible as 
$1, $2, ... ($0 is a label of menu entry)