On 21/Feb/2019 12:47, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ismael Luceno <[email protected]> writes: > > >> .... 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. > > > > ... > > Current implementation doesn't behave correctly when there's multiple > > spaces: > > In short, I wondered if it is correct, and you say it is not correct.
It's better than nothing, and the behavior isn't harmful. > I would be surprised if git-gui were the only program that > implemented an editor-like feature using tcl/tk, and none of the > other editor implementations using tcl/tk had such an industry > standard "delete previous word". Perhaps you can see if there > is already a correct implementation of the feature this patch can > borrow from? I couldn't find such implementation yet. I'll come up with an improved version if there's nothing else, but in the meanwhile it's worth to have this one merged.
