Re: Small typo in kernel [current source from git] .config option

[Michal Marek]

On 27.7.2010 19:12, trapDoor wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:46:45PM +0100, trapDoor wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I've just got lucky and found this little typo under "Power management
>>> and ACPI options"  ---> "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
>>> Interface) Support":
>>> hArdware Error Device
>>>
>>> Here is my fix:
>>> Hardware Error Device
>>> :)
>>>
>>> BTW, first time I've used nconfig instead of menuconfig. And I like it.
>>
>> The capital "A" is nconfigs way to tell you that you can use
>> "a" as shortcut to reach the menu.
> 
> Rignt! So it's just a 'mnemonic' and only appears like that in nconfig
> (I see that now). I'd guess that if I've ever made any use of
> mnemonics here.

For completeness - This affects any option that starts with H, Y, M or
N, as these letters are taken (they stand for Help, Yes, Module and No,
respectively). Unfortunatelly, there doesn't seem to be a way to
highlight single letters in an ncurses menu, hence the strange
cApitalization :(.

Michal
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