On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:19:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > > as the last thing in debian/config. Is this a bug in the manpage, or > > rather an error by me? > > It's a bug in debconf (#101800) with no particularly good solution. > Please don't try to work around it. IMO the frontend should pause, doing the latter in your description. Or this might be a short run, which will return the user to the prompt soon (or immediatly). Pausing then is quite annoying, when you see: blab blah blah blah [More] prompt# I think this is only really annoying if the "blah blah blah" message wasn't really that important in the first place, in which case it shouldn't be a debconf note anyway, and the user's annoyance should be expressed to the corresponding package maintainer with a bug report. Alternatively, couldn't you have the readline frontend produce a prompt at the end of any displayed note, such as: Press Enter to acknowledge this message. ? That would render more explicit the idea that we're not pausing because we think the screen has filled, but because we want the user to indicate that he/she has seen the important message we have given him/her. Please let me know if I am not understanding the issues here. (I do realize that my suggestion does not steer in the direction of keystroke minimization, which is a laudable goal of yours -- but I would think people seeking to minimize keystrokes should be using the noninteractive frontend, not readline.) -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Ab abusu ad usum non valet branden@debian.org | consequentia. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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