Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.14

From: Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2009, 23:22 UTC
Message-ID: <2c6b72b30902151522l5abcb2c6rdf0a43630fb97f5f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090214033139.GA7563@b2j>

2009/2/14 bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>:

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> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
>> [About horizontal scrolling]
>
> Thanks.  I tested and found that there might be a bug.  For some lines
> (>100 columns) it stoped scrolling even there are text there, instead
> it displayed a ~ sign at the edge.

This should have been addressed in tig-0.14.1.

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> Also, when editing in the command mode, the back-space and left arrow
> keys do not move cursor.  It can only use ctrl-h to delete the last
> character.  Apparently it did not use readline and was impossible to
> recall history using up-arrow key.  It should be perfect if it use
> readline and can also work in vi keybinding mode.

According to the ncurses FAQ, it is not straight forward to use readline. Of course you could call out, but then views loading in the background would stop working. I know this part of tig hasn't received a lot of work, and it has been noted in the TODO. I would be happy to give you some pointers if you are interested in looking into this yourself.

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Jonas Fonseca