Re: [REGRESSION] git-gui

From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date: Apr 3, 2008, 23:15 UTC
Message-ID: <57518fd10804031615m5c299df6hf31de3c689e16521@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200804032304.17054.barra_cuda@katamail.com>

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com> wrote:

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> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
>  > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:43 PM, André Goddard Rosa <andre_rosa@lge.com> wrote:
>  > > Hi, all!
>  > >
>  > >     After updating to git version 1.5.5.rc3 I always get the error below
>  > >  when starting "git gui".
>  > >     Linux distributions used are opensuse 10 and opensuse Factory.
>  > >
>  > >  # git gui
>  > >  Error in startup script: bad event type or keysym "["
>  > >     while executing
>  > >  "bind $ui_comm <$M1B-Key-\[> {show_less_context;break}"
>  > >     file "/usr/bin/git-gui" linux 2718)
>  > >
>  > >     I think it's related to git-gui 0.10 recently added into the tree.
>  >
>  > Doh, I broke git :(
>  >
>  > The problem is in c91ee2bd61 (Add shortcut keys for Show More/Less Context).
>  > Works fine on my OS X 10.5 installation with tcl 8.4.7 - can anyone
>  > suggest an alternative way of binding the left/right brackets?  I'm
>  > not familiar with Tcl, and didn't manage to find a list of key names.
>
>  These changes should help (haven't tried):
>         \[ -> bracketleft
>         \] -> bracketright
>  but some European keyboards do not have easy access to brackets, so
>  other keys would be preferable (comma and period, for example, or 1 and 2).
>
>  See
>         man keysyms
>  for a list of key names.
>

Anyone else got any opinions on an appropriate shortcut? How about '=' and '-' (+ and - without the shift), or are those not necessarily together either? (Are there really layouts where '[' and ']' aren't next to each other?)