Re: [PATCH/TOY] Shortcuts to quickly refer to a commit name with keyboard

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2017, 18:27 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh94ty4b5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170120160942.srqf4y5w5r6feidw@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Not really a comment on your patch itself, but I think a lot of people
> solve this at a higher level, either in their terminal or via a tool
> like tmux.
>
> I recently taught urxvt to recognize sha1s and grab them via keyboard
> hints, and I'm finding it quite useful. Here's what it looks like if
> you're interested:
>
>   http://peff.net/git-hints.gif

Nice. I would have called the "give me the string that is already on the screen" solution solving at a lower level, not higher, but I think I agree with the general direction. I always work in "screen" and grab a string I see displayed by going into its "copy" mode, which lets me jump to where the string appears by searching, and I think that is a solution in the same class.

>   2. It doesn't take any screen space until you're ready to select.

Yup, personally I find this quite important (as I am often on a box with a smaller screen).

I dream an integration with the command line completion we have. I do not offhand see what the mecanism to tell what object names were shown on the display recently to the completion mechanism should be, but if we can solve that small detail, the result would be wonderful ;-)