long since fixed upstream On 03.12.2012 12:19, Christoph Bodner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am testing Fedora 18-beta which uses "GNU GRUB version 2.00~beta4". I have > discovered the following problem and I have also found a workaround. > > After booting I pressed 'e' key in order to edit the config text. Using arrow > keys I navigated to the line starting with "linux". My aim was to add the > digit '3' after the end of this line which is quite a common task when you > want to boot in text mode, e.g. when x11 graphics mode needs to be > configured. This long line appears wrapped across three lines and it is > impossible to navigate to the end of the line. In my special case the last > word was "quiet" but I could only read "q\". > > The following workaround helped me to get the job done: I replaced the > TAB-characters at the left and right postions near "linux" through spaces and > then I could jump to the end-of-line position as expected. > > Therefore, this editor seems to have internal troubles expanding > TAB-characters to spaces and counting the resulting columns correctly. This > problem is perfectly reproducable among multiple Fedora 18-beta > installations. BTW, in a virtualized environemnt, this editor takes 100% CPU > power of the host machine which should not be necessary. > > Kind regards > > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Bodner > 6020 Innsbruck, Kohlweg 4 > AUSTRIA > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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