bsdinstaller / partedit emacs key patch

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 31 18:39:32 UTC 2011


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.
-Nathan


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