[syslinux] Arrow key feature request

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/22/2014 07:03 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>
>>> What exactly do you mean with "When not present, it should turn the
>>> new behavior on"?
>>
>> When the _parameter_ is not present.
> 
> I just saw this and thought I should kibitz.
> 
> How about have a way to explicitly map keys to behaviors and just
> default the keys to their current behavior.
> 
> The implementation would be an extra table lookup (no matter the
> mapping) it gives power to accomodate everyone's peculiarites
> and it should be very little additional code compared to today.
> (Mostly the change would be parsing the configuration directives).
> 
> You can later get into grand fights over what the best default
> behavior is but having it configurable will at allow room for
> people to disagree.
> 

Would be easy enough to implement, something equivalent to MENU COLOR.
So if someone wants a project...

	-hpa