From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:16:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add-interactive: shortcut to add hunk and quit
Message-ID: <201105191216.51709.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vr57wc9ja.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I think "single-key" was a poorly designed attempt to improve productivity
> the ("y" <RET>)*5 into "y"*5

Actually for me it more often is

  y RET n RET *think* y RET s RET n RET ...

> while sacrificing the safety net when you
> are trying to pick and decide one by one (like the accident Thomas had
> recently during "checkout -p"). If I can say "5y", think for half a second
> to make sure I typed what I meant, and <RET>, to apply 5 upcoming hunks in
> one go, I think I would be as efficient as the productivity optimization
> the single-key offers, while still protecting me from mistakes made by fat
> fingers.

There's nothing stopping us from implementing number prefixes in
single-key mode, since numbers do not have any meaning yet.

After my little accident I'm also considering an (optional?) safety
question at the end when in checkout -p mode, since it's inherently
destructive.  Of course that first requires changing the whole
operation to be atomic.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch