Re: Outline menu

[Marco Gerards]

Markus Elfring <address@hidden> writes:

>> Menu commands can have children already so you would get hierarchy
>> information from there. Shortcut key you could just add as extra
>> argument for menu, like --hotkey="1"
>
> Will an explanation of the data format be added to the wiki?
>
>
>> In example:
>> menu "foo" {
>>   menu "bar" {
>>     menu "zot" {
>>     }
>>   }
>> }
>
> Can an item be reused at different levels in the hierarchy without repetition 
> of
> its definition (attribute set)?

I want to make something to generate menu entries from a script.  Is
that what you mean?

>> Though I am not sure how well this outline view is supported by the
>> current parser. Marco, perhaps you could share some insights?
>
> How is the state of the GRUB 2 menu browser at the moment?

It's not stable yet.  Especially the scripting needs to be worked on.

>> I had a look at example mp3 playlist in opml format and it seems to be
>> data description language (like what xml is). What we have in grub
>> script is a scripting language that has commands to construct data (menu).
>
> Is a manual available already?

No, do you want to work on this?

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Marco