From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 19:31:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I do not use zsh but with bash+readline the old tradition lnext can
>> be used (see "stty -a" output and it typically is set to ^V), i.e.
>> \C-v followed by \C-i should give you a literal HT.
>
> Just looked it up: zsh has quoted-insert (^V) after which I can TAB.
> Still doesn't solve my problem though: I don't type out structs; I
> paste them the X clipboard (Emacs).  And that doesn't work either on
> bash or zsh.
>
> What can we do to improve the interface?

Heh, I seem to have just found a volunteer to finish the Linus's
dream by following up on http://gitster.livejournal.com/35628.html
(see section #5; I do not do GUI, neither Linus, so this has been a
four-year old dream).