[ipxe-devel] Entering String in menu-context possible?

[Michael Brown]

On 15/04/13 08:48, Leo Baltus wrote:
> Just a thought: would it make sense to have some sort of framework that
> allows several fields to be editted just like config and login and have
> config and login use that so that 'edit' could benefit from it too.
>
> I think it would be cool to be able to edit a few variables in one 'edit'
> session so you could visually edit for instance both kernel, initrd, and
> command-line options.

That's almost exactly why I'm wary of adding this feature: people will 
expect that ability.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't help in terms of byte count.  "config" and 
"login" already share the framework for edit boxes, which is abstracted 
out into editbox.c; there's no viable way I can see to share more code 
between these.

I'm happy to add an "edit" command which will create a single 
horizontally-scrollable edit box, which can be exited only via Enter, 
Ctrl-C, or Escape.  If this isn't going to be sufficient, then I'd 
rather not add the feature at all, and leave "read" as the only way to 
prompt the user for input.

Michael