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
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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