On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> Protip: arrow keys, left, right. > >> > >> Nah, that just doesn't cut it. It's annoying as hell. It's far less > >> annoying to simply "equery uses" on the USE flags you see during an > >> "emerge -a" and edit make.conf by hand instead of doing the > >> scroll-circus. You try to read text by constantly scrolling right and > >> left. It doesn't work for me, and probably for the majority of others > >> neither. > > > > oh yeah, scrolling for a tenth of a second is so much slower than feeding > > equery or euse and then open make.conf, type, check that you did not > > forget something .... > > In fact, it is. That lack of word-wrapping is the major reason it sucks > for me.
in fact, it isn't. Keeping in mind the half douzends of flags that have to be toggled, looking them up and editing make.conf takes A LOT longer, then just hit 'right arrow key' and go on.
