Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] launch_editor(): indicate that Git waits for user input

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:31:15PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:

> >> I would like to add "for your input" or "for you" to convey 
> >> that Git is not waiting for the machine but for the user.
> >> 
> >>    "hint: Launched editor. Waiting for your input..."
> >> 
> >> Would that work for you?
> > 
> > I guess "input" was the part that I found funny/confusing. The only
> > thing we know is that we're waiting on the editor process to finish, and
> > everything else is making assumptions about what's happening in the
> > editor.
> 
> I see. How about:
> 
> "hint: Launched editor. Waiting for your action..."
> (my preference)
> 
> or
> 
> "hint: Launched editor. Waiting for you..."

Better, IMHO, though I still think literally saying:

  hint: Waiting for your editor to exit...

is the most accurate, which I think makes it clear that you must _exit_
your editor, not just save and close the file.

I dunno, maybe that is being overly paranoid. Certainly I have seen
graphical programs that have a mismatch with the one-process-per-action
way that most terminal editors view the world, and would hang around
even after the user thinks they are done editing. But at the same time,
those programs are unlikely to work well as $GIT_EDITOR in the first
place, because running them from the terminal may just open a new window
in an existing session and exit immediately (which is the opposite
problem -- the editor exited before the user actually did their thing).

So I'm not sure if that would be a problem in practice or not. I'm too
mired in the vim world to have any real data. Somebody like you who is
supporting a large number of less-Unixy users probably has more
perspective there.

-Peff