From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LQorB-0007FZ-DZ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:11:53 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQor9-0007D8-TR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:11:51 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQor8-0007A4-El for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:11:51 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39329 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQor8-00079t-8g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:11:50 -0500 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:38797 helo=kirsi1.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQor7-0005LK-O1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:11:50 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (84.248.105.254) by kirsi1.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 48FC5AC9042A6D13 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:11:49 +0200 Message-ID: <497B75FE.2070809@nic.fi> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:11:42 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vesa_J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87iqp6229u.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> <871vvuvhtk.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> In-Reply-To: <871vvuvhtk.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: cmdline.c: ESC at any time exits: only mentioned once X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:11:52 -0000 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.