# Re: git-gui: commit message box doesn't respond to enter (only return)

3 messages from 2010-11-26 to 2010-12-06. Participants: Jonathan Nieder, Konstantin Khomoutov, Pat Thoyts.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25847

## Jonathan Nieder, 2010-11-26 20:38

Subject: Re: git-gui: commit message box doesn't respond to enter (only return)
Message-ID: <20101126203855.GA23258@burratino>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20101126203855.GA23258%40burratino
In-Reply-To: <20101126170956.25856.63131.reportbug@alsuren-thinkpad.cbg.collabora.co.uk>

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Hi Pat,

David Laban wrote at http://bugs.debian.org/605041:

> Package: git-gui
> Version: 1:1.7.2.3-2
> Severity: minor
>
> If I click into the messagebox and hit enter, nothing happens.
>
> This is annoying because if I'm adding a new paragraph to my commit message, 
> I will often do <click> <enter><enter> <start typing as normal>
>
> Don't ask me why I do this. I think enter is a lighter/easier to press
> key than return, and is also on the path that my hand takes between the mouse
> and the rest of the keyboard.
>
> I have also provisionally reported the following bug in tk, but I feel like
> a bit of a n00b for doing so.
>
> http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3119824&group_id=12997&atid=112997

I can't reproduce this because this laptop does not have a distinct
"numpad enter" key.

Thoughts?
Jonathan

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## Konstantin Khomoutov, 2010-11-26 23:28

Subject: Re: git-gui: commit message box doesn't respond to enter (only return)
Message-ID: <20101126232825.GE3264@localhost.localdomain>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20101126232825.GE3264%40localhost.localdomain
In-Reply-To: <20101126203855.GA23258@burratino>

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On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 02:38:55PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> David Laban wrote at http://bugs.debian.org/605041:
> 
> > Package: git-gui
> > Version: 1:1.7.2.3-2
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > If I click into the messagebox and hit enter, nothing happens.
> >
> > This is annoying because if I'm adding a new paragraph to my commit message, 
> > I will often do <click> <enter><enter> <start typing as normal>
> >
> > Don't ask me why I do this. I think enter is a lighter/easier to press
> > key than return, and is also on the path that my hand takes between the mouse
> > and the rest of the keyboard.
> >
> > I have also provisionally reported the following bug in tk, but I feel like
> > a bit of a n00b for doing so.
> >
> > http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3119824&group_id=12997&atid=112997
> 
> I can't reproduce this because this laptop does not have a distinct
> "numpad enter" key.
I've tested it on Debian Squeeze and added another comment on the
upstream bug report. In short: KP_Enter is not bound to any action in
Tk text widgets in X11, at least in 8.5.9.

But git-gui can be trivially patched to support this; that would be a
one-lineer. So if it is desired and will be accepted, I could prepare a
patch.

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## Pat Thoyts, 2010-12-06 20:55

Subject: Re: git-gui: commit message box doesn't respond to enter (only return)
Message-ID: <87mxoiy626.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87mxoiy626.fsf%40fox.patthoyts.tk
In-Reply-To: <20101126232825.GE3264@localhost.localdomain>

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Konstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

>On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 02:38:55PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> David Laban wrote at http://bugs.debian.org/605041:
>> 
>> > Package: git-gui
>> > Version: 1:1.7.2.3-2
>> > Severity: minor
>> >
>> > If I click into the messagebox and hit enter, nothing happens.
>> >
>> > This is annoying because if I'm adding a new paragraph to my commit message, 
>> > I will often do <click> <enter><enter> <start typing as normal>
>> >
>> > Don't ask me why I do this. I think enter is a lighter/easier to press
>> > key than return, and is also on the path that my hand takes between the mouse
>> > and the rest of the keyboard.
>> >
>> > I have also provisionally reported the following bug in tk, but I feel like
>> > a bit of a n00b for doing so.
>> >
>> > http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3119824&group_id=12997&atid=112997
>> 
>> I can't reproduce this because this laptop does not have a distinct
>> "numpad enter" key.
>I've tested it on Debian Squeeze and added another comment on the
>upstream bug report. In short: KP_Enter is not bound to any action in
>Tk text widgets in X11, at least in 8.5.9.
>
>But git-gui can be trivially patched to support this; that would be a
>one-lineer. So if it is desired and will be accepted, I could prepare a
>patch.
>

I've no problem with that. On unix the messagebox bindings are applied
directly to the dialog window (.__tk__messagebox) and it does include
Dialog in the bindtags so you could use
 bind Dialog <Key-KP_Enter> { .... }
except that might affect other dialogs too. That might not be a
problem. On Windows the messagebox is native so the bindings there are
whatever are standard.

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Pat Thoyts                            http://www.patthoyts.tk/
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