Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.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 :)
>

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