On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:57, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:03:09PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Friday 08 February 2008 17:18, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Fixes an ugly result of setting timeout=0. > > > > > > When this is combined with the "sleep" patch I just sent, user can > > > implement hiddenmenu-like functionality via scripting: > > > > > > echo -n "Press `ESC' to enter the menu... " > > > if sleep -v -i 10 ; then > > > set timeout=10 > > > else > > > set timeout=0 > > > fi > > > > I think this is a bit strange. I don't think anybody expects that "sleep" > > outputs a counter or is interrupted by a key input. It is too different > > from POSIX's sleep. > > > > My preference is rather to extend "read". Bash's "read" accepts a timeout > > and some other options. > > I started implementing this, and then noticed that it is a bit odd that > read prints timeout at the same time it is trying to obtain input from the > user. > > Timeout printing uses gotoxy() and erases current line. Don't you think > it'd look annoying?
Maybe. But we don't care about the character entered by the user in this case, so we could simply disable echoing. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
