Q: Commit message GUI

[MiroslavMikus]

First things first, huge thanks to the author and all contributors. 🙏

Topic
Commit message GUI.

Your thoughts

• Is there a way to enter a multiline commit message?
• It would be nice to have some more editing features like
  • Home: navigate to the start
  • End: navigate to the end
  • Ctrl: with the combination of Left or Right arrow: Skip whole word

Are these features possible with the console GUI library?

Thanks in Advice

[danielfalbo]

• Press tab to go to the next line
• Press ctrl+a to jump at the beginning of the current line of the message
• Press ctrl+e to jump at the end of the current line of the message

[MiroslavMikus]

Works like a charm 🎉
Many thanks, @danielfalbo!

Did I miss it in the docu?

[danielfalbo]

ctrl+a and ctrl+e work pretty much everywhere in the shell 👍 but yeah I didn't find tab in the documentation either, I remember asking it under an issue myself in the past.

[jesseduffield]

Apologies for the lacking documentation. I'm currently experimenting with having alt+enter add a newline, because using tab is admittedly quite awkward

[thislooksfun]

@jesseduffield Just updated to 0.27.1 and I can't enter newlines because alt-enter doesn't work on macOS since we have no alt key (yes I tried all the modifier keys, they all just committed).

My suggestions, in order would be:

1. shift+enter
2. meta+enter (would need an alternate on Windows/Linux)
3. ctrl+enter

[jesseduffield]

@thislooksfun it says alt but on mac it's actually your cmd key (I'm also on mac). Using iterm you can enable it by following these instructions:

Canop/broot#86 (comment)

I'm not actually sure if the other options you listed work, or if it's possible to make them work, with the rendering library we're now using (tcell). In fact it may not be possible at all, but I haven't looked into it very far

[thislooksfun]

I'm using Terminal.app, but I was able to get it working by checking "Use Option as Meta key".

[jesseduffield]

Using home/end is now supported with #1523

Jumping word by word is yet to come

[jesseduffield]

Given that #795 is more specific to the issue of jumping word by word, I'll close this ticket in favour of that