From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Suraj Kurapati <sunaku@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Illustration PATCH] add -i: accept single-keypress input
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:05:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbptjdh5e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233651248-26717-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:54:08 +0100")
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> Demonstrate how to add Term::ReadKey functionality to the main add -i
> prompt function list_and_choose().
>
> Not really great because if several input choices share a common first
> character, it prompts for the _rest_ of the line, meaning the choice
> of the first character cannot be undone again.
Hmm, you could trigger the action immediately after seeing _enough_ number
of characters to disambiguate instead of stop-and-prompt, I guess? That
way, you would get a single-key merely as a degenerate case when the
choices are all distinct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-03 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-01 20:35 [RFC PATCH] add -p: prompt for single characters Thomas Rast
2009-02-02 3:31 ` Suraj Kurapati
2009-02-02 8:34 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-02 8:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02 21:46 ` [PATCH 0/4] add -p: Term::ReadKey and more Thomas Rast
2009-02-02 21:46 ` [PATCH 1/4] add -p: change prompt separator for 'g' Thomas Rast
2009-02-02 21:46 ` [PATCH 2/4] add -p: trap Ctrl-D in 'goto' mode Thomas Rast
2009-02-02 21:46 ` [PATCH 3/4] add -p: optionally prompt for single characters Thomas Rast
2009-02-03 6:24 ` Jeff King
2009-02-03 8:54 ` [Illustration PATCH] add -i: accept single-keypress input Thomas Rast
2009-02-03 9:05 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-03 9:35 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-04 5:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-04 8:51 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-04 19:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] add -p: optionally prompt for single characters Thomas Rast
2009-02-04 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] add -p: " Thomas Rast
2009-02-04 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] add -p: print errors in separate color Thomas Rast
2009-02-04 20:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] add -p: prompt for single characters Thomas Rast
2009-02-04 20:12 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] add -p: print errors in separate color Thomas Rast
2009-02-04 20:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] add -p: optionally prompt for single characters Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05 8:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] add -p: " Thomas Rast
2009-02-06 14:01 ` Jeff King
2009-02-06 19:30 ` [PATCH] add -p: import Term::ReadKey with 'require' Thomas Rast
2009-02-06 20:30 ` Jeff King
2009-02-06 23:21 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-07 4:54 ` Jeff King
2009-02-07 7:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05 8:28 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] add -p: print errors in separate color Thomas Rast
2009-02-02 21:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] add -p: print errors in help colors Thomas Rast
2009-02-02 13:19 ` [RFC PATCH] add -p: prompt for single characters Jeff King
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