From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: add a space between the commit and "..." Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:20:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA2E8C7.4040100@viscovery.net> References: <20100928222332.GA28859@soprano.nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Aaron Plattner , git@vger.kernel.org, jkain@nvidia.com To: Brandon Casey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 29 09:22:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0qzo-0001ZN-3u for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:22:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752602Ab0I2HUp (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:20:45 -0400 Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at ([212.33.55.23]:64719 "EHLO lilzmailso02.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751114Ab0I2HUo (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:20:44 -0400 Received: from cpe228-254.liwest.at ([81.10.228.254] helo=theia.linz.viscovery) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0qxz-0005U2-Nw; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:20:39 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (J6T.linz.viscovery [192.168.1.95]) by theia.linz.viscovery (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D031660F; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:20:39 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100914 Thunderbird/3.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 9/29/2010 0:40, schrieb Brandon Casey: > On 09/28/2010 05:23 PM, Aaron Plattner wrote: >> Switching to a detached head prints something like >> >> HEAD is now at 9d14017... dir.c: squelch false uninitialized memory warning >> >> These dots get selected when you double-click on the abbreviated >> commit hash, which makes it annoying to copy and paste. > > This must be another gnome-terminal/konsole "innovation". > > xterm still does the "right thing"(tm) _and_ it doesn't eat my > alt keystrokes like alt-b to move the cursor back a word. /rant You must be running an xterm with settings from the stone ages. I had the impression that modern installations have the selection configured such that a file path can be selected with a mere double-click, without dragging. For this, the dot must be in the same class as letters and digits. Just for reference (I don't know how to read this): $ appres XTerm | grep charClass *charClass: 33:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,126:48,95:48 That said, I welcome this change, though I'd just have dropped ... or replaced with a colon (preference for the second). -- Hannes