From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1TROXs-0004QE-E6 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:36:28 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58618) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TROXi-0003x1-3s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:36:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TROXb-0007pC-Pp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:36:18 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:39809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TROXb-0007ol-I4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:36:11 -0400 Received: by mail-la0-f41.google.com with SMTP id p5so1833102lag.0 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:36:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=r54mO3c2Gb+Hm3/zfkW09KSu/us0GfUmeNfi7ckiEhg=; b=oI8QhOq7Sxh1PH2VhyWzoNNbq8rtb/muprSEjUmYyCG36WaeQwxFI/U6C5We2Hc2tJ 4erwtRE09Wr5Beh3y976/6tc6RC8ffXNZnlCb5j+L9E3qme12q1Munuz/gEIirhMKpWg C5Mo9H+qOs+X5QZuKFfNjUm4RPG/owdPBKJv321FY/RS9/55AI2bp14PIibsg1pMERZb tCWNCRoHhROOIYgQ63sKeTcPMJm3Y6IUgTy8EcP56mGaG72RtpZQrBgHmrdtfQDJlzJB 3+DfehybTtQy+R/5n11FmQPRpJPhhRTf5ldsUjF1+nXGQFK+Vd+qR02XsP9lqdiKYQn8 4aNw== Received: by 10.152.105.135 with SMTP id gm7mr17880603lab.22.1351175765066; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.100.20] (a91-154-13-129.elisa-laajakaista.fi. [91.154.13.129]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y10sm5951555lbg.4.2012.10.25.07.36.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50894E52.7080206@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:36:02 +0300 From: Petteri Pasila User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Number shortcuts in boot menu? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:36:24 -0000 Hey, Just came to my mind the other day and it doesn't seem like this has already been suggested/rejected at some point. So if your example menu looked something like this (the first one obviously being the active one) and your task at hand was to start up Windows for some stupid stupidity that you required it for: => (1) Arch GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel <= (2) Arch GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel (Fallback initramfs) (3) Random OS (4) Another kernel for the random OS (5) Some memtest86+ (6) Some other memtest86+ (7) Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2) ...then wouldn't it be brilliant to just type the number [7] to accomplish this instead of having to move the selection aaaaall the way to the end with the arrow keys and then like _all_ of that gruesomeness wasn't enough you're even asked to move one of your fingers to press the [Enter] key that's like *miles* away from the arrows your fingers just arrived at? (Sure you can just press the right arrow but let's pretend we didn't know about that, k?) You have to ask yourselves: how dare you do something like this? TORTURE IS A CRIME. Petteri and his imagination!