Re: [REGRESSION] git-gui

[Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>]

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:43 PM, André Goddard Rosa <andre_rosa@lge.com> wrote:
> > Hi, all!
> >
> >     After updating to git version 1.5.5.rc3 I always get the error below
> >  when starting "git gui".
> >     Linux distributions used are opensuse 10 and opensuse Factory.
> >
> >  # git gui
> >  Error in startup script: bad event type or keysym "["
> >     while executing
> >  "bind $ui_comm <$M1B-Key-\[> {show_less_context;break}"
> >     file "/usr/bin/git-gui" linux 2718)
> >
> >     I think it's related to git-gui 0.10 recently added into the tree.
> 
> Doh, I broke git :(
> 
> The problem is in c91ee2bd61 (Add shortcut keys for Show More/Less Context).
> Works fine on my OS X 10.5 installation with tcl 8.4.7 - can anyone
> suggest an alternative way of binding the left/right brackets?  I'm
> not familiar with Tcl, and didn't manage to find a list of key names.

These changes should help (haven't tried):
	\[ -> bracketleft
	\] -> bracketright
but some European keyboards do not have easy access to brackets, so
other keys would be preferable (comma and period, for example, or 1 and 2).

See
	man keysyms
for a list of key names.