From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Ivan Orlov <ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>
Cc: masahiroy@kernel.org, isak01@gmail.com,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow sorting the entries alphabetically
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 19:46:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7d45269e9d9438d3b1db293dc1482dd@manjaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240816141831.104085-1-ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>
Hello Ivan,
On 2024-08-16 16:18, Ivan Orlov wrote:
> Implement the functionality which allows to sort the Kconfig entries
> alphabetically if user decides to. It may help finding the desired
> entry
> faster, so the user will spend less time looking through the list.
Awesome, I love this new feature! Thank you for the patch.
> The sorting is done on the dialog_list elements in the 'dialog_menu'
> function, so on the option "representation" layer. The sorting could be
> enabled/disabled by pressing the '>' key. The labels are sorted in the
> following way:
>
> 1. Put all entries into the array (from the linked list)
> 2. Sort them alphabetically using qsort and custom comparator
> 3. Restore the items linked list structure
>
> I know that this modification includes the ugly heruistics for
> extracting the actual label text from " [ ] Some-option"-like
> expressions (to be able to alphabetically compare the labels), and I
> would be happy to discuss alternative solutions.
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2024-08-16 14:18 [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow sorting the entries alphabetically Ivan Orlov
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