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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:49:58 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        bapt@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, pav@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposed OPTIONS replacement
Message-ID:  <20101108084958.000042be@unknown>
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:33:48 -0800
Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I have no special requests as far as things I'd like to see added
> other than a less confusing way of navigation. I've run into a lot of
> new users that are all "When do I hit tab? Why do I have to hit space?
> Why doesn't this work the way I expect?" and I have no good answers
> for them. libdialog blows goats.

libdialog from 1995 blows goats; libdialog from 2010 doesn't, at least
not so much. They've changed the way checkboxes work for example so
that hitting Enter always commits changes (i.e. presses OK/Cancel) and
pressing Space changes whether or not an option is checked.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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