Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: menuconfig: remove jump_key::index

Randy Dunlap
2023-07-01T04:43:59Z

On 6/30/23 21:38, Jesse T wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 12:23 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jesse,
>>
>> On 6/30/23 21:08, Jesse T wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 12:03 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You do not need to remember the index of each jump key because you can
>>>> count it up after a key is pressed.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
>>>> ---
>>
>>>
>>> One slight off-topic question.
>>> The names of the menu-based config programs have names similar to their
>>> corresponding file gconfig ('gconf'), xconfig ('qconf'), menuconfig ('mconf'),
>>> and nconfig ('nconf'). The only exceptions to this one-letter naming are mconfig
>>> is not memuconfig and qconfig isn't xconfig. Would it be possible to
>>> add an alias
>>> to fix this?
>>>
>>> Side-side note config isn't in the docs.
>>
>> I'm not following what you mean here.
>> Are you referring to 'make config'?
>
> Typo sorry, `make gconfig`
> It's not listed at the top Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst and only briefly
> mentioned at the bottom.
>

Ah, I see. I don't mind adding it to kconfig.rst, but it is
arguably (IMHO) the least useful of the *config interfaces
since it doesn't have a search capability.

>>
>> So: what documentation is missing and where would it be found?

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~Randy