Torsten Landschoff wrote: > a) It does neither present the default nor the current value. > b) It is /not/ clear that hitting enter means the empty value. With > alone this information (the above one line) that's what I would have > expected. But I was used to debconf using the default value when hitting > enter even with the readline interface. > > > Barring some note that tells them there is a default, noone would expect > > hitting enter to result in some default value here[1]. The convention is > > I can proof the opposite by counterexample: I would expect it. Not on > the grounds of that output but by using debconf with readline frontend > before and just hitting enter when I did not care about a particular > setting. > > > Or this: > > > > Directory to dump databases: /var/backups/slapd-VERSION_ > > Yep, I was used that from older versions of the debconf readline > interface. As a matter of fact I seldom read the full description of and > option and decide by reading 3-4 lines that the default will be okay and > hit enter.
There's nothing older about it; that's the behavior of the readline interface in the gnu readline perl binding is installed -- see shy jo
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