[gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

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.