Re: menu loop (patch)

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Saturday 19 July 2008 21:58:09 Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:34:46AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > [...]  We could support a setting such as "set menuwrap=1" which
> > would enable this feature for users who care about it.
>
> Isn't this a bit overkill?  The time spent adding this config option vastly
> exceeds any time that could be saved by having or not having menu wrap.
>
> > Actually my graphical menu currently *does* wrap around, I guess it
> > seemed logical to me at the time I wrote the code!  8-)  As you can
> > tell, I am not firmly set on either wrapping or not wrapping.
>
> Same here..  my concern with taking arbitrary decisions is, when someone
> comes later and asks to have it reverted, do we accept the request, and
> otherwise what rationale do we give her? :-)

Personally, I prefer no wrapping, because it is easier for me to use only 
Up/Down arrow keys, yet locate entries easily. Since I am lazy, I don't want 
to look for Home or End (some keyboards really suck for them!), so when I 
just want to jump to somewhere near to the end, I only keep pushing Down, and 
wait for the cursor to stop. And, this is consistent with Dired mode in 
Emacs, Directory Listing in VIM, and, of course, with GRUB Legacy.

Regards,
Okuji