Re: [PATCH v2] git-gui: Handle Ctrl + BS/Del in the commit msg

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 21, 2019, 20:47 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa7iouavw.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190221093059.GA6594@kiki>

Ismael Luceno <ismael@iodev.co.uk> writes:

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>> ....  I am not sure if going
>> back by one character from where the current insertion cursor is and
>> further go back to the wordstart would give the beginning of the
>> word to the left of the cursor, though.
>
> ...
> Current implementation doesn't behave correctly when there's multiple
> spaces:

In short, I wondered if it is correct, and you say it is not correct.

I would be surprised if git-gui were the only program that implemented an editor-like feature using tcl/tk, and none of the other editor implementations using tcl/tk had such an industry standard "delete previous word". Perhaps you can see if there is already a correct implementation of the feature this patch can borrow from?

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>> A larger issue is that we haven't heard from Pat, who has been
>> helping git-gui.sh maintenance, for quite a while, so we'd need to
>> find a volunteer to act as a replacement maintainer.  If you are
>> willing to, that would be great ;-)
>
> Sure.