Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, John Covici wrote:

> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:52:34
> From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook
>
> On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:55:46 -0400,
> Dale wrote:
> >
> > [1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (8bit)>]
> > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:09:00 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > >
> > >> A feature that would be useful for menuconfig would be the ability once
> > >> a search is done to jump onto the desired search item directly (if the
> > >> item were available at all).
> > > That's already there. Options that are available have a number next to
> > > them. Press that to jump to the option.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Wow!!!  O_O  I never noticed that.  It works too.  I did a search for
> > speak and saw a number next to the results and hit it, 1 in my case, and
> > it went right to it.  I'm not going to mention how many times I went
> > digging to find something in the past.  It embarrassing.  ;-) 
> >
> > Now that is cool.  I just hope I remember to use it the next time.  :/
>
> I didn't know that either and have been doing this for years!
>
>

-- 

If nothing else at least three of us learned something useful today.
I suppose the shortest way to explain what I did extra before running make
menuconfig was to emerge espeakup.  Having done that espeakup emerged
about 35 packages many of which it likely would need.  I'm pretty sure
that step was correct, what if anything else to do after that before make
menuconfig I don't yet know.