From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>
Cc: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>,
Util-Linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cfdisk's input fields behave awkwardly (in utf8 locale)
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:37:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150202123736.GN16162@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150202122923.GA3933@cordes.ca>
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 08:29:23AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 03:02:06PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > [...cfdisk...]
> > > prompted for a partition size, would put the cursor at the start
> > > of the suggested value, and hitting any other key than Enter
> > > would erase this value. That is nice and desirable behaviour.
> > > Could that be restored?
> >
> > It would be better to implement full one line editor with support for
> > all basic keys and with ability to insert and erase chars on
> > arbitrary position with in the string... v2.27 :-)
>
> Maybe link with GNU readline, to avoid reinventing the wheel.
yep, and maybe for all fdisks, but it would be probably nice to have
it optional (--with-readline), and without readline keep it simple and
stupid.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-02 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-01 14:02 cfdisk's input fields behave awkwardly (in utf8 locale) Benno Schulenberg
2015-02-02 12:11 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-02 12:29 ` Peter Cordes
2015-02-02 12:37 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2015-02-02 12:46 ` Ingo Brückl
2015-02-02 12:49 ` Peter Cordes
2015-02-03 15:22 ` Ondrej Oprala
2015-02-02 20:42 ` Benno Schulenberg
2015-02-03 10:22 ` Karel Zak
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