On the new Hauppauge Nova-T RCU, the digit buttons 2..9 are labelled with the letters of the alphabet, similar to many push-button telephones and most mobile phones.
VDR already supports text entry with digit keys, but it ignores all digit keys (except 0) in cMenuSchedule::ProcessKey() and cMenuRecording::ProcessKey(). The latter is not that much of an issue, because it is really the user's fault if (s)he does not make use of subdirectories.
When I'd like to search for a program by name, I could hit Schedule 0 0 0 to get a list of all programs. It'd be very helpful to quick-jump to the first entry starting with 'E' by pressing 3 3. Currently, if the list were displaying titles starting with 'U', I'd have to hit Left very many times to reach entries starting with 'E'.
I wonder if there is already a patch that does exactly this. It wouldn't seem a big modification to menu.c.
Marko