Re: Idea: use menu hook to implement the savedefault command

[Bean]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:03:10AM +0800, Bean wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now it's possible to implement savedefault with load_env and save_env,
>> but the problem is we need to add it to every menuitem, it's tedious
>> process, and new item don't get it automatically.
>
> After discussing this on IRC, I just thought of another alternative.  We
> could add a pair of functions to update-grub_lib, like:
>
> begin_menuentry ()
> {
>  title=$1
>  echo "menuentry \"$title\" {"
>  echo "do some env-edit magic"
> }
>
> end_menuentry ()
> {
>  echo "}"
> }
>
> then have each of the /etc/grub.d modules that add menuentries use these
> functions instead of creating the menuentry directly.
>
> As a side-effect benefit, the /etc/grub.d modules become a bit more
> readable.

Hi,

Oh right, if you can do it in update-grub, it's probably better to do
it there. The above post also contain some idea about the
implementation of password command, perhaps I post a seperate post for
it.

-- 
Bean