On Friday 01 December 2017 02:21 AM, Jeff King wrote:
These are obviously the result of devils-advocate poking at the feature. I doubt any editor would end its output with a CR. But the first case is probably going to be common, especially for actual graphical editors. We know that emacsclient prints its own line, and I wouldn't be surprised if other graphical editors spew some telemetry to stderr (certainly anything built against GTK tends to do so).
Yeah, at times 'gedit' does do what you say. And if the user (surprisingly!) uses an IDE such as "eclipse" or a hackable text editor "atom" (of course with the '-f' option) for entering his commit message it is likely to happen all the time for him.
I don't think there's a good way around it. Portably saying "delete _this_ line that I wrote earlier" would probably require libcurses or similar. So maybe we just live with it. The deletion magic makes the common cases better (a terminal editor that doesn't print random lines, or a graphical editor that is quiet), and everyone else can flip the advice switch if they need to. I dunno.
--- Kaartic
