From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9Fby-0003R8-Hm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:39:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA14DE041F; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:39:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEF2E041F for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:39:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so4066449ewy.34 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 02:39:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=8WU7w+enl4xhD9s7fvUm1mLDwIKIqDx8+SwzctyX/ec=; b=CaHjDbO7p6+VgqUDVvOusAx4fXafz71Ep45A6xPSWdC4GBn3QpFb/r9f0743tWdqxv GCvnwF90QjZtJ8Zg9Ox2AGXd1kPRhkMC9eo8zbGrFRARqyTaJVWaeNf9o884EVCmDCza 2kSUylZmHDVBRASWSj4TJuyk2HXGq62nAYJOI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ua09iMoOmSqX/iedoM8NHiXCG71G1hpbO5SOQV/G2ISGQRCwP0oV8eCEwRKJLpeLB8 xptxkt3VLsc1CAxt3L2/BCFzwo6s2aXHiBvlf57PnP3Dp4eCYV+RFWhQe9DXhBrDk67s Sc5lLBHhBPkzsKMRAxzjKAogsMHkELIt8LqxM= Received: by 10.210.18.18 with SMTP id 18mr1492726ebr.73.1243417188001; Wed, 27 May 2009 02:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm12112450ewy.116.2009.05.27.02.39.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 May 2009 02:39:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:39:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.3r4; KDE/4.2.87; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A1C72A5.1010905@konstantinhansen.de> <200905271111.54345.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905271139.43861.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6d1509bc-3f30-4bd6-b445-5050d4c9627c X-Archives-Hash: fbecb7023800825ab89d30dae0acd678 On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> Protip: arrow keys, left, right. > >> > >> Nah, that just doesn't cut it. It's annoying as hell. It's far less > >> annoying to simply "equery uses" on the USE flags you see during an > >> "emerge -a" and edit make.conf by hand instead of doing the > >> scroll-circus. You try to read text by constantly scrolling right and > >> left. It doesn't work for me, and probably for the majority of others > >> neither. > > > > oh yeah, scrolling for a tenth of a second is so much slower than feeding > > equery or euse and then open make.conf, type, check that you did not > > forget something .... > > In fact, it is. That lack of word-wrapping is the major reason it sucks > for me. in fact, it isn't. Keeping in mind the half douzends of flags that have to be toggled, looking them up and editing make.conf takes A LOT longer, then just hit 'right arrow key' and go on.