Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 03:26:59 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: current@freebsd.org, dyson@freebsd.org, mark@grondar.za, peter@freebsd.org, peter@spinner.dialix.com, wpaul@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM bogon? Was: Re: NIS breakage Message-ID: <199701211626.DAA11690@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>> Until drivers export tables to say which fields they use, userconfig >> should display all fields, leaving the ones with value "none" blank, >> and accept input "?" to give fields with value "?" (which unfortunately >> have to be displayed as blank except for the port field). > >I think it would be reasonable to lump "?" and "none" under the euphemism >"auto" for now. The key '?' is already taken (help screen) in another >context, and 'a' is valid hex. Would 'x' be acceptable? I'd like 0x to mean hex and blanking out the 0x prompt to work. Then entering a blank field could mean "auto"/"none". You could still use "?" unless you want to introduce help in editing context. It would be as natural for Del to delete fields as well drivers (i.e., unnatural :-). Del is fairly useless as an editing key (unless the Backspace key generates it) since the field editor is so primitive that Del is equivalent to Backspace. Bruce
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199701211626.DAA11690>