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Re: feature request, git-gui: add hotkey to toggle amend/new

From
Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2019, 17:27 UTC
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On 04/09/19 01:35AM, David wrote:
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> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 22:45, Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
> >
> > Can you try doing a Shift+Tab? For me on Linux, if I hit Shift+Tab, it
> > immediately takes me to the "Amend last commit" option. Then I can press
> > space to select it and Tab again to get back to the commit message.
> 
> Hi Pratyush Yadav,
> 
> Yes, we know it can be done this way. The point being made is not
> "this cannot be changed with the keyboard". We know that you can
> fool around with the tab key and the shift key and the spacebar and
> eventually you can succeed in changing this option.

Yes, but what Birger was saying was hitting Ctrl+Tab 9-10 times to get to the option. This is much faster than that alternative.

My aim was to let people know what options already exist before 
proposing new ones.
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> And if you want to toggle it back again, you have to do a slightly
> different keyboard dance, depending on where your cursor or
> highlight is currently positioned.
> 
> Rather what we (at least I) am hoping to communicate is that after you
> have done this many thousands of times, and you can do everything
> else in git-gui very fast without touching the mouse, you might also join
> us in wishing for action to be achievable with one hotkey-combination
> event that does not affect any other state, it just toggles new/amend
> commit, and is not a sequence of several multi-key actions which must
> be adapted according to the current status of other input mode actions.

Don't get me wrong. I am not against having a dedicated hotkey for toggling amends. I think it is a common enough operation to warrant a dedicated keyboard toggle. I was just letting everyone know what the current options are, so they can make better judgements whether they really need this option or not.

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
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Message 16 of 27 in “feature request, git-gui: add hotkey to toggle amend/new”
  1. Birger Skogeng PedersenAug 31, 2019
  2. Birger Skogeng PedersenSep 2, 2019
  3. Bert WesargSep 2, 2019
  4. Birger Skogeng PedersenSep 2, 2019
  5. Add hotkey to toggle "Amend Last Commit" radio selectorBirger Skogeng Pedersen, Sep 2, 2019
  6. Bert WesargSep 3, 2019
  7. Bert WesargSep 3, 2019
  8. Bert WesargSep 3, 2019
  9. Bert WesargSep 2, 2019
  10. Bert WesargSep 2, 2019
  11. Birger Skogeng PedersenSep 3, 2019
  12. Pratyush YadavSep 3, 2019
  13. Birger Skogeng PedersenSep 3, 2019
  14. Pratyush YadavSep 3, 2019
  15. DavidSep 3, 2019
  16. Pratyush YadavSep 3, 2019
  17. Johannes SixtSep 4, 2019
  18. Pratyush YadavSep 4, 2019
  19. Birger Skogeng PedersenSep 4, 2019
  20. Johannes SixtSep 4, 2019
  21. Bert WesargSep 4, 2019
  22. David AguilarSep 10, 2019
  23. Birger Skogeng PedersenSep 11, 2019
  24. Pratyush YadavSep 11, 2019
  25. Pratyush YadavSep 11, 2019
  26. DavidSep 3, 2019
  27. Bert WesargSep 3, 2019

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