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From: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Subject: [RFC 0/1] mconf: Emacs-like isearch
Date: Wed,  6 Jun 2018 23:56:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180606215616.12817-1-dirk@gouders.net> (raw)

Hello,

being an Emacs user, I frequently find myself pressing CTRL-s in mconf
to search for some menu entry, especially in large menus.

I decided to implement a basic isearch in mconf and would like to hear
if others find this functionality useful, as well.

The new functionality is started with pressing CTRL-s followed by
characters that form the search string.  To search for further
occurences of an entered string, press CTRL-s instead of further
characters.

For example: to navigate to the USB device drivers, press CTRL-s de ENTER ENTER usb ENTER ENTER

Pressing just CTRL-s subsequently results in line-by-line navigation
through the menu (search for empty strings).

The isearch is terminated by pressing either ESC ESC or ENTER.

Because I expect that errors are found in the code and changes are requested, I
completely left out the documentation part and will add it to V2
should anyone find this functionality useful.

Thanks,

Dirk

Dirk Gouders (1):
  Emacs-like isearch for mconf.

 scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h  |   5 ++
 scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.c | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c    |   1 +
 3 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
2.16.4

             reply	other threads:[~2018-06-06 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-06 21:56 Dirk Gouders [this message]
2018-06-06 22:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-06-06 22:32   ` Dirk Gouders
2018-06-06 23:31     ` Randy Dunlap
2018-06-06 23:54       ` Dirk Gouders
2018-06-07  2:02         ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-06-07  5:56           ` Dirk Gouders
2018-06-07 16:32             ` Sam Ravnborg
2018-06-08  7:56               ` Dirk Gouders

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