On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:24:30 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Most people don't seem to know
> >about '/' in make menuconfig.
That's a shame.
> I find it very confusing to use, since it returns too verbose text to skim
> through. Probably the search function should be split into "only search
> titles[*]" and "search description too".
Re verbosity: do you know that menuconfig search (/) takes regular
expressions? That could help someone limit the amount of output
from it.
Can you give an example of being too verbose?
> config UNIX
> bool "Unix socket" <-- that's a "title", as in menuconfig
The search function of menuconfig (currently) works in the namespace of
CONFIG_ symbols. It will search for a regex in the symbol tables.
Yes, someone could modify it to search thru the prompt strings of the
symbols. I don't know if that would help or not.
I have just modified menuconfig search to make displaying the
Selects: and Selected by: output be an option (actually it's a
different search command (\) to not see those lines.
Would that help any regarding verbosity?
The patch is here if you would care to try it:
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/menuconfig-search2.patch
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~Randy
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