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Re: [Illustration PATCH] add -i: accept single-keypress input

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2009, 09:05 UTC
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
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> Demonstrate how to add Term::ReadKey functionality to the main add -i
> prompt function list_and_choose().
>
> Not really great because if several input choices share a common first
> character, it prompts for the _rest_ of the line, meaning the choice
> of the first character cannot be undone again.

Hmm, you could trigger the action immediately after seeing _enough_ number of characters to disambiguate instead of stop-and-prompt, I guess? That way, you would get a single-key merely as a degenerate case when the choices are all distinct.

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Message 8 of 13 in “add -p: Term::ReadKey and more”
  1. 0/4 add -p: Term::ReadKey and moreThomas Rast, Feb 2, 2009
  2. 1/4 add -p: change prompt separator for 'g'Thomas Rast, Feb 2, 2009
  3. 2/4 add -p: trap Ctrl-D in 'goto' modeThomas Rast, Feb 2, 2009
  4. 3/4 add -p: optionally prompt for single charactersThomas Rast, Feb 2, 2009
  5. 4/4 add -p: print errors in help colorsThomas Rast, Feb 2, 2009
  6. Jeff KingFeb 3, 2009
  7. add -i: accept single-keypress inputThomas Rast, Feb 3, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2009
  9. Thomas RastFeb 3, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2009
  11. Thomas RastFeb 4, 2009
  12. Thomas RastFeb 4, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2009

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