From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752115AbYLQNJp (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:09:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751572AbYLQNJb (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:09:31 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:45401 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751009AbYLQNJa (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:09:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:10:10 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: euphoria@inbox.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: losing a menuconfig session to a typo Message-ID: <20081216211009.GA2041@ucw.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon 2008-12-15 13:03:28, euphoria@inbox.com wrote: > It's easy to accidentally lose a menuconfig session. Scenarios start with a > user being accustomed to hitting [right-arrow][return] to exit from a typical > menu. Perhaps the user prefers his underutilized numeric keypad over adding to > the beating [escape] takes. Scenarios finish with the user accidentally > issuing [right-arrow][return] to "Do you wish to save? ". I only > lost a quick change, but it's easy to imagine how a few hours of menuconfig > time might go away. "It'll just take a few minutes to whip my distro's kernel > into shape." Yeah right. Four hours of guesswork and research later, you're > tired, thinking about the make command to follow, [right-arrow][return] as > usual, wait! no! damndamndamn!, yer snookered. > > There are a variety of simple ways to address this. First, change the menu. > Swapping the order of the and would be begging for even more > trouble. However, the / decision could be made a // > decision. This leaves , the predominant choice, in place. , in > the disputed position, could simply present the same menu. Someone might even > have a little well-deserved fun with menus. This doesn't seem all that Too ugly to live. But maybe periodically saving config to .config.autosave once in 5 minutes...? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html