Re: bsdinstaller / partedit emacs key patch
On 03/31/11 22:39, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 01/04/2011, at 5:09, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 03/29/11 20:50, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I noticed that the entry widgets in the bsdinstaller label editor don't understand various emacs keys (eg C-a, C-d, C-e). Here's a patch which adds the basics.. Unfortunately dialog doesn't have a key for delete all, delete left or delete right so I couldn't add C-u, C-w or C-k. Note that you can't just call dlg_parse_bindkey(* ^a BEGIN) because dialog modifies the string which crashes (seg fault). I'm happy to put this in, but it would be nice if you could try to get this into upstream dialog to avoid inconsistencies in various parts of the installation. I suspect it would be pretty bikeshed prone :( Is there a dialog mailing list? My google-fu failed and I can't find one. I suppose the alternative is to install a global rc file (ie /etc/dialogrc) with the following contents.. bindkey * ^a BEGIN bindkey * ^d DELETE_RIGHT bindkey * ^e FINAL Here's the website: http://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html The nearest thing to a mailing list is the ncurses one, but I'd suggest just emailing the author. -Nathan ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsdinstaller / partedit emacs key patch
On 03/29/11 20:50, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I noticed that the entry widgets in the bsdinstaller label editor don't understand various emacs keys (eg C-a, C-d, C-e). Here's a patch which adds the basics.. Unfortunately dialog doesn't have a key for delete all, delete left or delete right so I couldn't add C-u, C-w or C-k. Note that you can't just call dlg_parse_bindkey(* ^a BEGIN) because dialog modifies the string which crashes (seg fault). I'm happy to put this in, but it would be nice if you could try to get this into upstream dialog to avoid inconsistencies in various parts of the installation. -Nathan ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsdinstaller / partedit emacs key patch
On 01/04/2011, at 5:09, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 03/29/11 20:50, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I noticed that the entry widgets in the bsdinstaller label editor don't understand various emacs keys (eg C-a, C-d, C-e). Here's a patch which adds the basics.. Unfortunately dialog doesn't have a key for delete all, delete left or delete right so I couldn't add C-u, C-w or C-k. Note that you can't just call dlg_parse_bindkey(* ^a BEGIN) because dialog modifies the string which crashes (seg fault). I'm happy to put this in, but it would be nice if you could try to get this into upstream dialog to avoid inconsistencies in various parts of the installation. I suspect it would be pretty bikeshed prone :( Is there a dialog mailing list? My google-fu failed and I can't find one. I suppose the alternative is to install a global rc file (ie /etc/dialogrc) with the following contents.. bindkey * ^a BEGIN bindkey * ^d DELETE_RIGHT bindkey * ^e FINAL -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
