Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kconfiglib menuconfig implementation

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu May 03 2018 - 16:31:23 EST


On 05/02/2018 07:47 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 05/01/2018 11:13 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ulf,
>>
>> When menuconfig displays the Kconfig menu tree and it is over term-width
>> characters, it truncates on the left so that the user can see all of
>> the current menu name. menuconfig.py truncates on the right so that
>> the current menu name may be partially lost or totally lost.
>
> Fixed. The menu path now scrolls to the right as needed. Maybe "..."
> could be displayed as well, though I'm not sure if it's helpful in
> practice.

Not needed.

>>
>> To enable=y a tristate symbol, cannot enter Y, must do Space Space to cycle
>> from N to M to Y.
>
> Fixed.
>
>>
>> No / symbol search. I use that a lot, but I don't claim to be a
>> typical user.
>
> Coming soon. I have added a "show-all" mode in preparation for it, as
> you might want to jump to invisible symbols.

Sounds good.

> Screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/screenshots/screenshots/ss9.png


One minor nit (bikeshed?): I'm not crazy about "make scriptconfig". :)

thanks,
--
~Randy