Documentation/kconfig: more concise and straightforward search explanation
authorYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tue, 9 Jul 2013 21:15:17 +0000 (23:15 +0200)
committerYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:26:30 +0000 (20:26 +0200)
Re-phrase the explanations on the sorting of search results, in a more
concise and complete way.

Drop reference to the user's locale when sorting alphabetically, since
this is implicit.

Reported-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt

index e9f9e767f82af2003d3e432d941c9ec525564535..d58a2eaefdf4e967d0aa29a47dd4daf3c91c1cc0 100644 (file)
@@ -175,11 +175,9 @@ Searching in menuconfig:
                /^hotplug
 
        When searching, symbols are sorted thus:
-         - exact match first: an exact match is when the search matches
-           the complete symbol name;
-         - alphabetical order: when two symbols do not match exactly,
-           they are sorted in alphabetical order (in the user's current
-           locale).
+         - first, exact matches, sorted alphabetically (an exact match
+           is when the search matches the complete symbol name);
+         - then, other matches, sorted alphabetically.
        For example: ^ATH.K matches:
            ATH5K ATH9K ATH5K_AHB ATH5K_DEBUG [...] ATH6KL ATH6KL_DEBUG
            [...] ATH9K_AHB ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT ATH9K_COMMON [...]