Re: menuconfig search (Re: [rfc] fix Kconfig, hotplug_cpu is needed for swsusp)

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:42:46 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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?

Regexes are not mentioned in the "Help" menu.

It is mentioned in the Help text after one enters '/'.

│ Search for CONFIG_ symbols and display their relations. │
│ Regular expressions are allowed. │
│ Example: search for "^FOO" │


That could help someone limit the amount of output
from it.
Can you give an example of being too verbose?

/ UNIX
Symbol: UNIX [=y]
Prompt: Unix domain sockets
Defined at net/unix/Kconfig:5
Depends on: NET
Location:
-> Networking
-> Networking support (NET [=y])
-> Networking options

Symbol: UNIXWARE_DISKSLICES ...
...


What would be more useful:
UNIX
Unix domain sockets
Networking > Networking Support > Networking options

UNIXWARE_DISKSLICES
Unixware slices support
File systems > Advanced ...

I.e. strip the Defined and Depends lines and crunch the Location lines inasfar
as that the full width of the window is used (break at col 70).

I don't see any need to limit it to 70 columns wide. It knows how to
scroll left/right (using arrow keys).


DEEP_FS
Just a symbol
File systems > Advanced filesystems > Very advanced filesystems >\n
Extremely advanced filesystems > Deep filesystem


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?

At the moment, entering e.g. UNIX in both the / and \ menus return the very
same output. Bug?

The \ should include everything what the original / had, plus the symbol
description ("Say Y here if ....").

Nope, the only thing that the "reduced" search excludes atm is SELECT info.
From my original email, as you quoted above, the less-verbose '\' search
only eliminates the Selects: and Selected by: output, and the UNIX
config symbols don't have any SELECT info.

I don't know if we are converging any, but I made a new patch:
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/menuconfig-search2b.patch

This one changes the default '/' search to NOT be verbose and the
new, extended '\' search to be verbose. The non-verbose search omits
Selects:, Selected by:, and Location: information.

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~Randy
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