Re: [PATCH v3] git-gui: Handle Ctrl + BS/Del in the commit msg

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 27, 2019, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1905272135280.28524@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20190506144122.GE4920@kiki>

Hi,

On Mon, 6 May 2019, Ismael Luceno wrote:

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> On 08/Apr/2019 12:54, Ismael Luceno Cortes wrote:
> > - Control+BackSpace: Delete word to the left of the cursor.
> > - Control+Delete   : Delete word to the right of the cursor.
> >
> > Originally introduced by BRIEF and Turbo Vision between 1985 and 1992,
> > they were adopted by most CUA-Compliant UIs, including those of: OS/2,
> > Windows, Mac OS, Qt, GTK, Open/Libre Office, Gecko, and GNU Emacs.
> >
> > In both cases Tk already implements the functionality bound to other key
> > combination, so we use that.
> <...>
>
> Ping.

FWIW I am in favor of this patch. It is simple enough, and the commit message does a good job explaining why it is a good idea to do it.

It's too bad that we do not have any active Git GUI maintainer... :-(

Ciao, Johannes