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[Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info>]

On Thursday 03 of June 2010 02:10:37 flux wrote:
> I had an idea about a way to add optional comment "fields" to
> config_query_multi choice selection. I'll reference an end-user example
> first.
>
> Current implementation:
> Which mmworp would you like?
>         [0]  secret
>         [1]  foo
>         [2]  bar
>         [3]  blarg
> You can select multiple choices by simply entering the proper numbers
> and/or chars.
> Select your choices? [ 0]
>
> Idea of new implementation:
> Which mmworp would you like?
>         [0]  secret (something you're not supposed to know)
>         [1]  foo (the standard)
>         [2]  bar (hmmm.... interesting...)
>         [3]  blarg (NOT WANT)
> You can select multiple choices by simply entering the proper numbers
> and/or chars.
> Select your choices? [ 0]
>
> The ability to put arbitrary text after a choice will greatly enable a
> user to know what they are choosing without having to expend too much
> effort in looking it up (at least if they still need to look it up,
> they'll have a better idea of where to look).
>
> I grepped over the grimoire (only the main grimoire) and found no
> instances of anything other than bare words for the choices. If an array
> item is properly quoted, it can contain spaces (and of course other
> characters), so I thought that encoding the new way as follows might
> work well for us:
>
> config_query_multi WACKY_OPTIONS "Which mworp would you like?" \
>                    "secret (something you're not supposed to know)"
>                    "foo (the standard)"
>                    "bar (hmm.... interesting...)"
>                    "blarg (NOT WANT)"
I suggest a more optional_depends like approach, to avoid extra parsing:
config_query_multi WACKY_OPTIONS "Which mworp would you like?" \
                    secret "something you're not supposed to know" \
                    obvious "" \
                    bar "hmm.... interesting..." \
                    blarg "NOT WANT"

LP
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