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

From: Ismael Luceno <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:31:00 +0100

On 20/Feb/2019 12:05, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ismael Luceno <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > - 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.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ismael Luceno <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >
> > Notes:
> >     Changes since v1:
> >     - Improved commit message.
> 
> I do not use git-gui, but as a bystander, the intent of the change
> sounds sane.  deleting from the insertion cursor to the end of the
> word where the insertion cursor is looks like the right way to
> delete the word to the right of the cursor.  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.

Graphical explanation:

Deleting to the left:
      v----- pointer
X_WORD_X
  ^--^------ selection

Deleting to the right:
  v--------- pointer
X_WORD_X
  ^--^------ selection

Current implementation doesn't behave correctly when there's multiple
spaces:

Deleting to the left:
        v--- pointer
X_WORD____X
       ^---- selection

Deleting to the right:
  v--------- pointer
X____WORD_X
  ^--------- selection

> 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.