Yeah that feels like a premature optomization as that limits your interface options significantly (to only 9 valid choices). I'm suprised there haven't been any other bugs related to this, but maybe there aren't a lot of cli use-cases out there with complex bug-reporting choices. I've attached a branch that now readlines instance or read(1) for prompts which contain a large set of choices (> 10).
This merge proposal a bit more flexible as it'd also permit options where > 99 choices are presented. I would think that > 99 choices would be a usability issues as I can't fathom people reading through 100+ separate options to actually choose the one that best applies to them. I'm not sure the SRU team understood the impact of the branch. Per the pastebin that I provided originally, the user wouldn't have to input "3 " they would input "3<enter>" or "1<enter>" or "11". I've since changes this branch to read until <enter> for all choices if the # or choices are > 10. This means that all existing apport use-cases retain the optimized 1 character choice selection if their provided choices are <= 9. For any lists larger than that (which is currently broken in apport) the user will have to hit enter after their choice. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1722564 Title: apport question will not accept multi-character responses Status in Apport: Confirmed Status in apport package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in apport source package in Artful: In Progress Bug description: the newly added cloud-init apport support shows a list of cloud providers and asks the user to select one. There are currently 18 options. For any option > 10, apport will just take the '1' that is typed as the answer. It should obviously wait for more than one character or a carriage return. *** Please select the cloud vendor or environment in which this instance is running Choices: 1: Amazon - Ec2 2: AliYun 3: AltCloud 4: Azure 5: Bigstep 6: CloudSigma 7: CloudStack 8: DigitalOcean 9: GCE - Google Compute Engine 10: MAAS 11: NoCloud 12: OpenNebula 13: OpenStack 14: OVF 15: Scaleway 16: SmartOS 17: VMware 18: Other C: Cancel Please choose (1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/C): 1 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: apport 2.20.7-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 10 15:21:48 2017 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=C.UTF-8 SourcePackage: apport UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1722564/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
