Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] launch_editor: waiting for editor message

["Rubén Justo" <rjusto@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 01:24:55PM -0400, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
> On Friday, April 12, 2024 1:15 PM, Rubén Justo wrote:
> >Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] launch_editor: waiting for editor message
> >
> >We have a hint shown when we are waiting for user's editor since
> >abfb04d0c7 (launch_editor(): indicate that Git waits for user input, 2017-12-07).
> >
> >After showing the hint, we call start_command() which can return with an error.
> >Then we'll show "unable to start editor...", after having said "Waiting for your
> >editor...", which may be confusing.
> >
> >Move the code to show the hint below the start_command().
> 
> My thought on this move is for esoteric (but commonly used) terminal
> emulators. If one is on a t6530, tn3270, or w3270/9 emulator, for
> example, the emulator switches modes from text on the POSIX side to
> block/full screen mode when the editor is launched. Printing a message
> after the editor has launched has the potential to dump the message
> into the terminal emulation buffer and get caught in the commit text
> comment. This is not desirable. This change could have seriously
> undesirable side-effects.

That's a good point.  Thanks for bringing it up.

Of course, in such a situation the user has the opportunity to disable
the hint.

However, can you think of a way in which we could do this, not showing
the "Waiting..." before the "unable to start", better?

Thanks.