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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

El Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:47:30 +0200
Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info> escribió:
> 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"
> 

I vote for space separators. $(cut -f1 -d' ') FTW!

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