Re: Support for different hotkey action than execute

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

On 04.03.2012 22:13, Andreas Born wrote:
> Any problem with this patch? Or why is there no comment? I know, it's 
> really long. ;)
>
> In fact, if possible, I'd be very happy if we can still get this into 
> 2.00.
>
It can't it arrived too late in release cycle.
> Am 27.02.2012 00:08, schrieb Andreas Born:
>> Attached patch introduces a new environment variable hotkey_action. 
>> It can be set to select or execute, whereas the latter is the 
>> default. So the default behaviour doesn't change. With select set 
>> instead a menu entry is just selected and not executed/booted on 
>> hotkey press.
>>
>> This is for example useful for long menus to directly jump to some 
>> initial and afterwards select the desired entry without going through 
>> the whole menu. One still has to explicitly mark the menu entry to 
>> jump to with the hotkey attribute. This patch only allows to change 
>> the action to take on hotkey press.
>>
>> Not much code and most is inspired from grub_menu_get_timeout. 
>> Applies and works with r3991.
>>
>>     Add support to the menu for changing the action on hotkey press:
>>     execute (default), select
>>
>>     * grub-core/normal/menu.c (DEFAULT_HOTKEY_ACTION): New define.
>>     (run_menu): Handle hotkey_action.
>>     (grub_menu_get_hotkey_action): New function.
>>     * include/grub/menu.h (grub_menu_get_hotkey_action): New prototype.
>>     (grub_hotkey_action_type_t): New enum.
>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko