On 01/04/2011, at 5:09, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 03/29/11 20:50, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I noticed that the entry widgets in the bsdinstaller label editor don't understand various "emacs keys" (eg C-a, C-d, C-e). >> >> Here's a patch which adds the basics.. Unfortunately dialog doesn't have a "key" for delete all, delete left or delete right so I couldn't add C-u, C-w or C-k. >> >> Note that you can't just call dlg_parse_bindkey("* ^a BEGIN") because dialog modifies the string which crashes (seg fault). > > I'm happy to put this in, but it would be nice if you could try to get this into upstream dialog to avoid inconsistencies in various parts of the installation. I suspect it would be pretty bikeshed prone :( Is there a dialog mailing list? My google-fu failed and I can't find one. I suppose the alternative is to install a global rc file (ie /etc/dialogrc) with the following contents.. bindkey * ^a BEGIN bindkey * ^d DELETE_RIGHT bindkey * ^e FINAL -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8CReceived on Fri Apr 01 2011 - 01:39:45 UTC
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