From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:05:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [Illustration PATCH] add -i: accept single-keypress input
Message-ID: <7vbptjdh5e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1233651248-26717-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> 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.