Re: question about interactive.singlekey

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2011, 21:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsjo9743o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110906205011.GC1747@kudu.in-berlin.de>

Valentin Haenel <valentin@fsfe.org> writes:

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> i have recently installed debian on my laptop. I discovered that the
> 'interactive.singlekey' setting does not seem to work. On my desktop,
> which has been debian for a while it does work. These are both debian
> stable and have the exact same version of git v1.7.2.5, but
> perhaps slightly different packages of other software installed. Does
> the 'interactive.singlekey' setting perhaps need additional libraries
> which were forgotten in the debian package dependencies?

I see this:

        eval {
                require Term::ReadKey;
                Term::ReadKey->import;
                $use_readkey = 1;

so perhaps...

    $ apt-cache search term.*readkey
    libterm-readkey-perl - A perl module for simple terminal control