From: Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com>
When a graphical GIT_EDITOR is spawned by a Git command that opens
and waits for user input (e.g. "git rebase -i"), then the editor window
might be obscured by other windows. The user may be left staring at the
original Git terminal window without even realizing that s/he needs to
interact with another window before Git can proceed. To this user Git
appears hanging.
Print a message that Git is waiting for editor input in the original
terminal and get rid of it when the editor returns.
No message is printed in a "dumb" terminal as it would not be possible
to remove the message after the editor returns. This should not be a
problem as this feature is targeted at novice Git users and they are
unlikely to work with a "dumb" terminal.
Power users might not want to see this message or their editor might
already print such a message (e.g. emacsclient). Allow these users to
suppress the message by disabling the "advice.waitingForEditor" config.
The standard advise() function is not used here as it would always add
a newline which would make deleting the message harder.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 3 +++
advice.c | 2 ++
advice.h | 1 +
editor.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 671fcbaa0f..de64201e82 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ advice.*::
ignoredHook::
Advice shown if an hook is ignored because the hook is not
set as executable.
+ waitingForEditor::
+ Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for
+ editor input from the user.
--
core.fileMode::
diff --git a/advice.c b/advice.c
index c6169bcb52..406efc183b 100644
--- a/advice.c
+++ b/advice.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ int advice_object_name_warning = 1;
int advice_rm_hints = 1;
int advice_add_embedded_repo = 1;
int advice_ignored_hook = 1;
+int advice_waiting_for_editor = 1;
static struct {
const char *name;
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ static struct {
{ "rmhints", &advice_rm_hints },
{ "addembeddedrepo", &advice_add_embedded_repo },
{ "ignoredhook", &advice_ignored_hook },
+ { "waitingforeditor", &advice_waiting_for_editor },
/* make this an alias for backward compatibility */
{ "pushnonfastforward", &advice_push_update_rejected }
diff --git a/advice.h b/advice.h
index f525d6f89c..70568fa792 100644
--- a/advice.h
+++ b/advice.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ extern int advice_object_name_warning;
extern int advice_rm_hints;
extern int advice_add_embedded_repo;
extern int advice_ignored_hook;
+extern int advice_waiting_for_editor;
int git_default_advice_config(const char *var, const char *value);
__attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)))
diff --git a/editor.c b/editor.c
index c65ea698eb..cdad4f74ec 100644
--- a/editor.c
+++ b/editor.c
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ int launch_editor(const char *path, struct strbuf *buffer,
const char *const *en
const char *args[] = { editor, real_path(path), NULL };
struct child_process p = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
int ret, sig;
+ int print_waiting_for_editor = advice_waiting_for_editor &&
+ isatty(2) && !is_terminal_dumb();
+
+ if (print_waiting_for_editor) {
+ fprintf(stderr, _("hint: Waiting for your editor
input..."));
+ fflush(stderr);
+ }
p.argv = args;
p.env = env;
@@ -63,6 +70,14 @@ int launch_editor(const char *path, struct strbuf *buffer,
const char *const *en
if (ret)
return error("There was a problem with the editor
'%s'.",
editor);
+
+ if (print_waiting_for_editor)
+ /*
+ * go back to the beginning and erase the
+ * entire line to avoid wasting the vertical
+ * space.
+ */
+ fputs("\r\033[K", stderr);
}
if (!buffer)
--
2.15.0
