[syslinux] menu module behaviour for menu exit

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Apr 9 11:07:23 PDT 2009


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.

	-hpa




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