{"thread":{"id":"46427","subject":"--interactive mode: readline support ⌨⬆","startedAt":"2017-07-20T08:24:50Z","lastAt":"2017-07-20T17:00:21Z","messageCount":6,"participants":["Marcel Partap","Martin Ågren","Leah Neukirchen"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"324794","messageId":"55629eef-537e-e5b6-c0dc-6e3372d00b33@gmx.net","threadId":"46427","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"--interactive mode: readline support ⌨⬆","fromName":"Marcel Partap","fromEmail":"mpartap@gmx.net","sentAt":"2017-07-20T08:21:18Z","receivedAt":"2017-07-20T08:24:50Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mpartap@gmx.net","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/48334bf11d5314a55b0d9bb4e0eeb8f9ccd836ed2f978181850423d8ddf284ee?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Dear git devs,\nwouldn't it be great to have the power of readline added to the power of git interactive commands? Yes, rlwrap will do the job, but still.\nOr am I missing something obvious? Am using debian's 2.11.0-2 ...\n\n#BestRegards/Marcel Partap\n"},{"id":"324796","messageId":"CAN0heSoJVf4A=92GPwFGUL0uoqWK3eY89+uCTirVzSYHHhfwwg@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"46427","inReplyTo":"55629eef-537e-e5b6-c0dc-6e3372d00b33@gmx.net","subject":"Re: --interactive mode: readline support ⌨⬆","fromName":"Martin Ågren","fromEmail":"martin.agren@gmail.com","sentAt":"2017-07-20T08:47:52Z","receivedAt":"2017-07-20T08:48:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"martin.agren@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 20 July 2017 at 10:21, Marcel Partap wrote:\n> wouldn't it be great to have the power of readline added to the power of git interactive commands? Yes, rlwrap will do the job, but still.\n> Or am I missing something obvious?\n\nWell maybe *I* am missing something obvious. :) Could you be a bit\nmore specific? What is the use-case? Once this feature were in place,\nwhat would it look like? Could you give an example of what you as a\nuser would do to solve some particular problem -- and how that differs\nfrom how you would solve it today?\n\nMartin\n"},{"id":"324797","messageId":"59370040-020f-a5b0-fbd1-677e46d382b3@gmx.net","threadId":"46427","inReplyTo":"CAN0heSoJVf4A=92GPwFGUL0uoqWK3eY89+uCTirVzSYHHhfwwg@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: --interactive mode: readline support ⌨⬆","fromName":"Marcel Partap","fromEmail":"mpartap@gmx.net","sentAt":"2017-07-20T09:20:28Z","receivedAt":"2017-07-20T09:20:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mpartap@gmx.net","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/48334bf11d5314a55b0d9bb4e0eeb8f9ccd836ed2f978181850423d8ddf284ee?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Ok very good point Martin ; )\nI nefariously hid one obvious use case as trailing emoji™ in the subject, but a better way to make a point is to properly explain.\nSo the readline library powers the advanced line editing capabilities behind f.e. the bash or the ipython shell. Besides navigating with the cursor keys, it provides a history function accessible by the up cursor key ⌨⬆ .\nAt the moment, git interactive mode seems (?) not to make use of it, so there's no line editing at all. A typo at the beginning of a line must be corrected by reverse deleting up to it, then retyping the rest unchanged. With readline, the home/end keys for jumping to beginning or end work, as do the left/right keys in a familiar way.\nThe history function comes in handy when f.e. repeatedly using `git clean -i` and feeding the \"filter by pattern\" command a string like \"*.patch\". Like, that's the use case that prompted me to write to this list. : )\n\n#Best Regards/Marcel\n"},{"id":"324799","messageId":"CAN0heSqsn-XGgZFxc+kLiBPSdzrtqg6JR4_g9062F+jZmLu0Bg@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"46427","inReplyTo":"59370040-020f-a5b0-fbd1-677e46d382b3@gmx.net","subject":"Re: --interactive mode: readline support ⌨⬆","fromName":"Martin Ågren","fromEmail":"martin.agren@gmail.com","sentAt":"2017-07-20T11:50:37Z","receivedAt":"2017-07-20T11:50:44Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"martin.agren@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 20 July 2017 at 11:20, Marcel Partap wrote:\n> So the readline library powers the advanced line editing capabilities behind f.e. the bash or the ipython shell. Besides navigating with the cursor keys, it provides a history function accessible by the up cursor key ⌨⬆ .\n> At the moment, git interactive mode seems (?) not to make use of it, so there's no line editing at all. A typo at the beginning of a line must be corrected by reverse deleting up to it, then retyping the rest unchanged. With readline, the home/end keys for jumping to beginning or end work, as do the left/right keys in a familiar way.\n> The history function comes in handy when f.e. repeatedly using `git clean -i` and feeding the \"filter by pattern\" command a string like \"*.patch\". Like, that's the use case that prompted me to write to this list. : )\n\nOk, I see. When I saw your first mail, I was thinking about \"git\nrebase -i\" and thought, \"how could that possibly help?\". :) I have no\nidea what it would take to implement this (portably!) in git.\n\nMartin\n"},{"id":"324800","messageId":"8e7e45bb-3f5e-e4f2-f532-7a709e8e8dcd@gmx.net","threadId":"46427","inReplyTo":"CAN0heSqsn-XGgZFxc+kLiBPSdzrtqg6JR4_g9062F+jZmLu0Bg@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: --interactive mode: readline support ⌨⬆","fromName":"Marcel Partap","fromEmail":"mpartap@gmx.net","sentAt":"2017-07-20T12:06:40Z","receivedAt":"2017-07-20T12:06:54Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mpartap@gmx.net","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/48334bf11d5314a55b0d9bb4e0eeb8f9ccd836ed2f978181850423d8ddf284ee?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Haha, totally slipped by me that there exist two kinds of interactive mode. Not that I haven't used both... Sorry for overlooking/being to unspecific.\n\n#Regards/Marcel X )\n"},{"id":"324812","messageId":"874lu7nj7n.fsf@gmail.com","threadId":"46427","inReplyTo":"55629eef-537e-e5b6-c0dc-6e3372d00b33@gmx.net","subject":"Re: --interactive mode: readline support ⌨⬆","fromName":"Leah Neukirchen","fromEmail":"leah@vuxu.org","sentAt":"2017-07-20T16:53:16Z","receivedAt":"2017-07-20T17:00:21Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"leah@vuxu.org","avatar":null},"body":"Marcel Partap writes:\n\n> Dear git devs,\n> wouldn't it be great to have the power of readline added to the power\n> of git interactive commands? Yes, rlwrap will do the job, but still.\n> Or am I missing something obvious? Am using debian's 2.11.0-2 ...\n\nJust use \"rlwrap git clean -i\".\n\n-- \nLeah Neukirchen http://leah.zone\n\n"}]}