# [PATCH] Highlight every 5th line for add -i

3 messages from 2010-08-13 to 2010-08-14. Participants: Ciaran McCreesh, Stephen Boyd.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24729

## Ciaran McCreesh, 2010-08-13 12:46

Subject: [PATCH] Highlight every 5th line for add -i
Message-ID: <1281703569-8833-1-git-send-email-ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1281703569-8833-1-git-send-email-ciaran.mccreesh%40googlemail.com

```
It's easier to match up numbers to filenames when there's lots of output
that way.
---
 git-add--interactive.perl |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index 27fc793..542c29c 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ sub list_and_choose {
 			my $ref = ref $print;
 			my $highlighted = highlight_prefix(@{$prefixes[$i]})
 			    if @prefixes;
+			my $this_line_color = '';
 			if ($ref eq 'ARRAY') {
 				$print = $highlighted || $print->[0];
 			}
@@ -511,7 +512,10 @@ sub list_and_choose {
 			else {
 				$print = $highlighted || $print;
 			}
-			printf("%s%2d: %s", $chosen, $i+1, $print);
+			if ((! $opts->{LIST_FLAT}) && (($i + 1) % 5 == 0) && (@stuff >= 10)) {
+				$this_line_color = $header_color;
+			}
+			printf("%s%s%2d: %s%s", $chosen, $this_line_color, $i+1, $print, $normal_color);
 			if (($opts->{LIST_FLAT}) &&
 			    (($i + 1) % ($opts->{LIST_FLAT}))) {
 				print "\t";
-- 
1.7.2

```

## Stephen Boyd, 2010-08-14 10:33

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Highlight every 5th line for add -i
Message-ID: <4C6670FD.9010100@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4C6670FD.9010100%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <1281703569-8833-1-git-send-email-ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>

```
  On 08/13/2010 05:46 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> It's easier to match up numbers to filenames when there's lots of output
> that way.

Interesting. Maybe it would be better to reorganize the listing so that the number is adjacent to the path name? For example:

    staged    unstaged   #  path
unchanged     +5/-2     1: git-add--interactive.perl
unchanged     +100/-2   2: builtin/log.c
unchanged     +49/-2    3: builtin/add.c
unchanged     +0/-60    4: git.c
unchanged     +5/-2     5: help.c

I'm mostly concerned that the highlighting (boldening?) is going to be confused with selection.

Patch below (I'm sure someone more versed in perl can do it better).

--->8----8<---

diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index 27fc793..002122d 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -225,8 +225,8 @@ sub list_untracked {
         run_cmd_pipe(qw(git ls-files --others --exclude-standard --), @ARGV);
  }

-my $status_fmt = '%12s %12s %s';
-my $status_head = sprintf($status_fmt, 'staged', 'unstaged', 'path');
+my $status_fmt = '%12s %12s %4s%s %s';
+my $status_head = sprintf($status_fmt, 'staged', 'unstaged', '#', ' ', 'path');

  {
         my $initial;
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ sub list_and_choose {

                 if ($opts->{HEADER}) {
                         if (!$opts->{LIST_FLAT}) {
-                               print "     ";
+                               print " ";
                         }
                         print colored $header_color, "$opts->{HEADER}\n";
                 }
@@ -506,12 +506,14 @@ sub list_and_choose {
                                 $print = sprintf($status_fmt,
                                     $print->{INDEX},
                                     $print->{FILE},
+                                   $i + 1,
+                                   ":",
                                     $value);
                         }
                         else {
                                 $print = $highlighted || $print;
                         }
-                       printf("%s%2d: %s", $chosen, $i+1, $print);
+                       printf("%s%s", $chosen, $print);
                         if (($opts->{LIST_FLAT})&&
                             (($i + 1) % ($opts->{LIST_FLAT}))) {
                                 print "\t";

```

## Ciaran McCreesh, 2010-08-14 18:58

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Highlight every 5th line for add -i
Message-ID: <20100814195813.2ef163ef@snowcone>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100814195813.2ef163ef%40snowcone
In-Reply-To: <4C6670FD.9010100@gmail.com>

```
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:33:33 -0700
Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> wrote:
>   On 08/13/2010 05:46 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > It's easier to match up numbers to filenames when there's lots of
> > output that way.
> 
> Interesting. Maybe it would be better to reorganize the listing so
> that the number is adjacent to the path name? For example:
> 
>     staged    unstaged   #  path
> unchanged     +5/-2     1: git-add--interactive.perl
> unchanged     +100/-2   2: builtin/log.c
> unchanged     +49/-2    3: builtin/add.c
> unchanged     +0/-60    4: git.c
> unchanged     +5/-2     5: help.c
> 
> I'm mostly concerned that the highlighting (boldening?) is going to
> be confused with selection.

That's also good for me. I don't have any particular preference or
opinions on which is clearer.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

```