From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mout3.wup.tal.de ([195.8.224.251]:60743 "EHLO mout3.wup.tal.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933206AbbBBM5N (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2015 07:57:13 -0500 Received: from point.localnet (mue-88-130-75-006.dsl.tropolys.de [88.130.75.6]) (Authenticated sender: ib@wtal.de) by smtp.tal.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AE610860D487 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:47:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from ib by point.localnet with local (masqmail 0.2.21) id 1YIGPb-0ct-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:47:31 +0100 Message-ID: <54cf71c2.3100869e.bm000@wupperonline.de> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ingo=20Br=FCckl?= To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cfdisk's input fields behave awkwardly (in utf8 locale) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:46:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20150202123736.GN16162@ws.net.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Karel Zak wrote on Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:37:36 +0100: > 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), [...] Absolutely! Ingo