Re: [Illustration PATCH] add -i: accept single-keypress input

> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > I don't think that's very nice.  On the one hand, you'd really want to
> > allow the user to delete some of the input again if he decides to do
> > something else instead, and we'd either need readline or need to
> > reinvent it for that....
> 
> But doesn't the original "single-keypress" theme shares that problem
> anyway?  It trades the ability to "delete some of the it again if he
> decides to" away, in exchange for something else (probably "quicker input"
> or "perceived ease of use").