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[PATCH v2 3/4] add -p: prompt for single characters

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Feb 4, 2009, 20:08 UTC
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Use Term::ReadKey, if available, to let the user answer add -p's prompts by pressing a single key. The 'g' command is the only one that takes an argument, but can easily cope since it'll just offer a choice of chunks. We're not doing the same in the main 'add -i' interface because file selection etc. may expect several characters.

Documentation text by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
---

This is NOT preceded by 1-2/4 since these are already on next. I'm just replacing the last two.

 Documentation/config.txt  |    8 ++++++++
 git-add--interactive.perl |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 7fbf64d..403edb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1013,6 +1013,14 @@ instaweb.port::
 	The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
 	linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
 
+interactive.readkey::
+	In interactive programs, allow the user to provide one-letter
+	input with a single key (i.e., without hitting
+	enter). Currently this is used only by the `\--patch` mode of
+	linkgit:git-add[1].  Note that this feature is silently
+	disabled for Perl programs (like git-add) if Term::ReadKey is
+	not available.
+
 log.date::
 	Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date
 	value is similar to using 'git-log'\'s --date option. The value is one of the
diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index 3bf0cda..3aa21db 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ my ($diff_new_color) =
 
 my $normal_color = $repo->get_color("", "reset");
 
+my $use_readkey = 0;
+if ($repo->config_bool("interactive.readkey")) {
+	eval {
+		use Term::ReadKey;
+		$use_readkey = 1;
+	};
+}
+
 sub colored {
 	my $color = shift;
 	my $string = join("", @_);
@@ -758,11 +766,32 @@ sub diff_applies {
 	return close $fh;
 }
 
+sub _restore_terminal_and_die {
+	ReadMode 'restore';
+	print "\n";
+	exit 1;
+}
+
+sub prompt_single_character {
+	if ($use_readkey) {
+		local $SIG{TERM} = \&_restore_terminal_and_die;
+		local $SIG{INT} = \&_restore_terminal_and_die;
+		ReadMode 'cbreak';
+		my $key = ReadKey 0;
+		ReadMode 'restore';
+		print "$key" if defined $key;
+		print "\n";
+		return $key;
+	} else {
+		return <STDIN>;
+	}
+}
+
 sub prompt_yesno {
 	my ($prompt) = @_;
 	while (1) {
 		print colored $prompt_color, $prompt;
-		my $line = <STDIN>;
+		my $line = prompt_single_character;
 		return 0 if $line =~ /^n/i;
 		return 1 if $line =~ /^y/i;
 	}
@@ -893,7 +922,7 @@ sub patch_update_file {
 			print @{$mode->{DISPLAY}};
 			print colored $prompt_color,
 				"Stage mode change [y/n/a/d/?]? ";
-			my $line = <STDIN>;
+			my $line = prompt_single_character;
 			if ($line =~ /^y/i) {
 				$mode->{USE} = 1;
 				last;
@@ -966,7 +995,7 @@ sub patch_update_file {
 			print;
 		}
 		print colored $prompt_color, "Stage this hunk [y,n,a,d,/$other,?]? ";
-		my $line = <STDIN>;
+		my $line = prompt_single_character;
 		if ($line) {
 			if ($line =~ /^y/i) {
 				$hunk[$ix]{USE} = 1;
@@ -1018,9 +1047,17 @@ sub patch_update_file {
 				next;
 			}
 			elsif ($line =~ m|^/(.*)|) {
+				my $regex = $1;
+				if ($1 eq "") {
+					print colored $prompt_color, "search for regex? ";
+					$regex = <STDIN>;
+					if (defined $regex) {
+						chomp $regex;
+					}
+				}
 				my $search_string;
 				eval {
-					$search_string = qr{$1}m;
+					$search_string = qr{$regex}m;
 				};
 				if ($@) {
 					my ($err,$exp) = ($@, $1);
-- 
1.6.1.2.554.g6515b
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