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From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:47:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.23.451.2010120245410.25171@panix1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1593e821-2614-2dc9-9edd-0ce4e6645b71@whjeon.com>

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020, WooHyung Jeon wrote:

> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 21:30:59
> From: WooHyung Jeon <dev@whjeon.com>
> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook
>
> On 2020-10-11 ?? 8:55, Dale wrote:
> > 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. :/
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
>
>  Just watch out and read carefully where you landed on.
> It could take you to the dependent option, before the specific
> one. For example, even if you searched 'A' and select the number
> left-side of 'A', it could land on option 'B' because it must
> enabled before you can play with 'A'.
>
>  I surprised twice. First, as you did, when I first noticed I
> can select with the number, and Secondly, when I noticed it
> sometimes didn't bring me to the specified option :)
>

-- 

Didn't read about any of this in the handbook, probably some material on
inside menuconfig might be where this stuff could go.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-12  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-11  2:09 [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook Jude DaShiell
2020-10-11 11:30 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-10-11 15:38   ` Jude DaShiell
2020-10-11 11:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-10-11 11:55   ` Dale
2020-10-11 16:52     ` John Covici
2020-10-11 17:05       ` Jude DaShiell
2020-10-12  1:30     ` WooHyung Jeon
2020-10-12  6:47       ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2020-10-24  8:41         ` Paul Ezvan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-14 18:48 Jude DaShiell
2020-11-14 19:46 ` antlists
2020-11-14 22:15   ` Rich Freeman
2020-11-15 12:45 ` Michael
2020-11-15 14:34   ` Jude DaShiell
2020-11-15 15:46     ` Michael
2020-11-15 18:54       ` Neil Bothwick

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