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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.

  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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