Re: [Suggestion] LILO-like direct menu item access && scripting

[Serbinenko Vladimir <serbinenko.vova@list.ru>]

Marc-Jano Knopp wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 at 15:34 (+0100), Serbinenko Vladimir wrote:
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>>Marc-Jano Knopp wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 at 10:38 (+0100), Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
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>>>>On Thursday 10 February 2005 22:51, Marc-Jano Knopp wrote:
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>>>>>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. :-)
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>>>>I prefer to execute it when a shortcut key is pressed. Why not?
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>>>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).
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>>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)
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>Accessible to whom or what?
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To the scripts

>My scenario would be something like this:
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>1. Hit 's' to enter select-menu-entry-by-name mode (optional)
>2. Type "linux" and hit [Return] to select (not execute) menu item
>   "Linux 2.4"
>3. Hit 'e' to edit. Now the cursor could be at the end of the line
>   by default, so that I just need to type for example:
>4. " root=/dev/sdf" [Return]
>5. Hit [Return] again (or 'b') to boot.
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The problem with this scenario is the determination of line by default 
especially for scripts. You can have a script that launches different 
kernels depending on condition or it can use function. Which line is the 
default one?

>Best regards
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>  Marc-Jano
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