From: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:38:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: add a space between the commit and "..."
Message-ID: <20100928233832.GA20224@soprano.nvidia.com>
In-Reply-To: <tNUxsuXC1ZklaaYn-pkW6hae44B_tB2hStuto66EU4k9w2Q79GA6LQ@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:40:11PM -0700, Brandon Casey wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 05:23 PM, Aaron Plattner wrote:
> > Switching to a detached head prints something like
> > 
> >   HEAD is now at 9d14017... dir.c: squelch false uninitialized memory warning
> > 
> > These dots get selected when you double-click on the abbreviated
> > commit hash, which makes it annoying to copy and paste.
> 
> This must be another gnome-terminal/konsole "innovation".
> 
> xterm still does the "right thing"(tm) _and_ it doesn't eat my
> alt keystrokes like alt-b to move the cursor back a word. /rant

How is your xterm configured?  On my stock Ubuntu 9.10 system, it doesn't
do the "right thing"... the dots are selected.  Gvim gets it right.

Also, Alt-B appears to work fine in gnome-terminal.  I don't have Konsole
to try.

-- Aaron