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From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: cmdline.c: ESC at any time exits: only mentioned once
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:11:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497B75FE.2070809@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vvuvhtk.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Gentlemen, there is a serious usability problem with cmdline.c.
> 
> At the very start the user sees the message made by
> 
>   grub_printf ("\
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB\n\
>    lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible\n\
>    device/file completions.%s ]\n\n",
> 	       nested ? " ESC at any time exits." : "");

This is kinda problem for translations anyway. So it would be preferable
to have static text there...

What is the overall gain for having nested to control output of that text?

> The problem is, just let him type "help" just once...
> 
> The note about "ESC at any time exits" is now gone from the screen.
> 
> He now faces a list of the help commands, with NO "exit" or "quit"
> choices.

Now the question is, should we provide an exit command? Bash basically
supports that so it could be a good idea.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-24 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20081007095652.GD7127@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-10-08 21:40 ` forgot passwd, cannot login, [rd]init=/bin/sh don't work jidanni
2008-10-08 23:09   ` walt
2008-10-09 18:19   ` Niels Böhm
2008-10-11  2:46     ` jidanni
2008-10-15 18:41       ` jidanni
2008-12-26 18:57       ` [PATCH] menu.c clearer instructions jidanni
2008-12-26 19:48         ` cmdline.c: ESC at any time exits: only mentioned once jidanni
2009-01-24 20:11           ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2009-01-25  9:42             ` Carles Pina i Estany
2008-12-26 20:46         ` [PATCH] menu.c clearer instructions Carles Pina i Estany
2008-12-26 22:54           ` jidanni
2008-12-27  6:53             ` Pavel Roskin
2008-12-27 22:49               ` jidanni
2008-12-30  1:09                 ` jidanni
2008-12-30  8:12                   ` Jerone Young
2009-01-01  0:18                     ` jidanni
2009-01-05  5:31             ` Jerone Young
2009-01-05 23:53               ` jidanni
2009-01-23 20:05                 ` patches not acted upon jidanni
2009-01-24 20:02                   ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2009-01-25  3:24                   ` Jerone Young
2009-01-26 19:27                     ` jidanni
2008-12-26 19:10       ` [semi-PATCH] grub.texi: emergency booting without root passwd jidanni
2008-12-26 20:42         ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-01-24 20:06           ` Vesa Jääskeläinen

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