[syslinux] About "MENU TITLE" and possible hotkey handling

[H. Peter Anvin]

Giulio Orsero wrote:
> 3.71, using isolinux and simple menu system menu.c32
> 
> To avoid having many different menu config files (one for each submenu) I'm
> trying switching from the once required syntax
> ====
> MENU LABEL > ^Firmware/BIOS
>         KERNEL menu.c32
>         APPEND menufw.cfg
> ====
> to
> ====
> MENU BEGIN
> 	MENU TITLE ^Firmware/BIOS
> 
> 	<stuff that was inside menufw.cfg>
> MENU END 
> ====
> 
> However, it's not clear to me how the "^F" hotkey is handled, if it is at
> all.
> 
> Reading doc/menu.txt it would seem hotkey is only handled in "MENU LABEL";
> however, when I use the above syntax the "^"char is stripped from the string
> when displayed in the main menu (submenu title entry in main menu screen),
> where I see
> 	Firmware/BIOS   (^ stripped, but no hotkey available)
> while it's printed in the title of the submenu screen, where I see
> 	^Firmware/BIOS
> 
> The stripping of the "^" char makes my wonder whether there's a way, maybe
> undocumented, to use hotkey in "MENU TITLE" too; is there a way?
> 

Sounds like a bug to me.  Try changing "MENU TITLE" to "MENU LABEL" and 
see what happens.

	-hpa