That is one way to look at it, but... [LWN.net]

That is one way to look at it, but...

Posted Jan 23, 2015 17:37 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: That is one way to look at it, but... by error27
Parent article: When real validation begins

There is a search feature in menuconfig which tells you the location, but there isn't a "search in page" and quite a few of these lists of drivers are three pages long. If they were in alphabetical order that might help.

nconfig is the new menuconfig; it has both global search for symbols and incremental search for labels within the current menu.

That is one way to look at it, but...

Posted Jan 29, 2015 14:44 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Doesn't seem terribly functional to me. F1 to F4 (allegedly Help, SymInfo, Help 2 and ShowAll) serve to go back or quit: F9 (allegedly Quit) does nothing.

I bet it's my terminal (old Konsole, TERM=xterm-color) or something. I guess I'll have to do some debugging...

That is one way to look at it, but...

Posted Jan 29, 2015 15:50 UTC (Thu) by PaulMcKenney (✭ supporter ✭, #9624) [Link]

There is certainly room for improvement, as always. For example, search works nicely, but it would be even better to be able to directly change the values of the things found by the search, as can be done with xconfig. Still, nconfig is much faster than xconfig, which is welcome.

F9 works for me. I must confess that I didn't try most of the others.

That is one way to look at it, but...

Posted Jan 29, 2015 22:15 UTC (Thu) by vbabka (subscriber, #91706) [Link]

With make menuconfig, search result have prefixes like (1), (2) etc. Press the corresponding number key and it jumps directly to the option.

That is one way to look at it, but...

That is one way to look at it, but...

First I had heard of "make nconfig"

That is one way to look at it, but...

That is one way to look at it, but...

That is one way to look at it, but...