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Date:      Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:27:48 -0700
From:      Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu
Message-ID:  <BANLkTikpnSgJauK3yBuTcJFWNo9WLDT54g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 04/29/2011 20:34, Warren Block wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Devin Teske wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still leaning toward just making the "V" in "Verbose" and "S" in
>>> "Single
>>> User" bolded.
>>
>> Why not just underline hotkey characters? That's already a well-known
>> standard in lots of places.
>
> Agreed, that's a much more standard UI.

I hope that works for serial console.  VT100 may be a reasonable
default in that case, but it would be good to make sure that menu
works even on a dumb terminal. Perhaps we should put 'key' letter in
brackets then?

--Artem



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