[syslinux] menu module behaviour for menu exit

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>>  Ok, when I nest the submenus, it works as expected. But the problem then
>>  is that a "menu title" does not have ^Hotkey support like "menu label"
>>  does. And I can also not indent the "menu title" entries in my main menu.
>>
>>  That is exactly why I decided to not nest the submenus (and use the top
>>  level) because that way I can use "menu label" to jump to other menus,
>>  indent them (menu indent), use hotkeys.
>>
>>  So I guess if I would nest them and have Escape return to the parent menu,
>>  I would need to have "menu indent" work for menus (not just labels) as
>>  well as have hotkey support in menu titles to get the same results.
>>
>>  Am I correct that both were designed to not work like I just described ?
>
> Pretty much.  Either way, this is a feature request, not a bug fix; it's 
> definitely way too late to open that up in 3.74.

Of course, put it on some general todo list as unimportant nitpicking :)
I just removed all the indenting and hotkeys for my use, it is not 
essential.

3.74 looks fine by me, especially with the kbdmap support and the first 
release of hdt and rosh. So many things happening lately !

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