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From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use "hash1..hash2" instead of "from hash1 to hash2"
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:53:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xk2mou9.wl%cworth@cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7iznquc4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:28:59 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> You may be doing this to help Cut & Paste.  Using A..B without
> spaces in between makes it easy to grab both at the same time as
> a range to give them to "git log".  At the same time it makes it
> harder to pick only A or B, so this is two-edged.
>

I had requested this change once to help cut and paste.

The current behavior I get for selecting hash1..hash2 with (for
example) gnome-terminal is somewhat unfortunate, (double-clicking on
any character selects the pair plus the separator). Obviously, '.'
must be considered a word character, not a separator. I wonder if such
selection is easily capable of being told to consider ".." a word
separator? If so, it seems the output would be quite convenient
whether one or two of the hashes were desired for selection.

-Carl

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-29 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-28 22:11 [PATCH] Use "hash1..hash2" instead of "from hash1 to hash2" Santi Béjar
2006-09-29  2:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-29 19:53   ` Carl Worth [this message]

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