On Sat, 09 Mar 2013, Julian Taylor wrote: > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline > apt-get install matlab-support > Location of MATLAB installation(s): ...
> entering an empty string does not cancel the prompt. > Other frontends are probably ok, they offer a cancel option. and now I started to wonder on what is the generic solution here (CCing debconf maintainers on advise) -- some frontends (dialog) do offer Cancel button for the "Type: string" entry and some seems to be not (readline) -- there must be a generic resolution to guarantee uniform functionality to cancel. Any clues? Moreover it seems that in a clean chroot Ctrl-C didn't work for me (to cancel when I ran into the readline prompt I wanted to cancel) while on the main system -- it does interrupt with Ctrl-C as for "emtpy input to cancel" logic in matlab-support -- if that is not a generic approach, ideally then the prompt string would need to be adjusted (and all translations) -- probably too much at this point. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
