On 04/09/19 01:35AM, David wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 22:45, Pratyush Yadav <m...@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
> >
> > Can you try doing a Shift+Tab? For me on Linux, if I hit Shift+Tab, it
> > immediately takes me to the "Amend last commit" option. Then I can press
> > space to select it and Tab again to get back to the commit message.
> 
> Hi Pratyush Yadav,
> 
> Yes, we know it can be done this way. The point being made is not
> "this cannot be changed with the keyboard". We know that you can
> fool around with the tab key and the shift key and the spacebar and
> eventually you can succeed in changing this option.

Yes, but what Birger was saying was hitting Ctrl+Tab 9-10 times to get 
to the option. This is much faster than that alternative.

My aim was to let people know what options already exist before 
proposing new ones.
 
> And if you want to toggle it back again, you have to do a slightly
> different keyboard dance, depending on where your cursor or
> highlight is currently positioned.
> 
> Rather what we (at least I) am hoping to communicate is that after you
> have done this many thousands of times, and you can do everything
> else in git-gui very fast without touching the mouse, you might also join
> us in wishing for action to be achievable with one hotkey-combination
> event that does not affect any other state, it just toggles new/amend
> commit, and is not a sequence of several multi-key actions which must
> be adapted according to the current status of other input mode actions.

Don't get me wrong. I am not against having a dedicated hotkey for 
toggling amends. I think it is a common enough operation to warrant a 
dedicated keyboard toggle. I was just letting everyone know what the 
current options are, so they can make better judgements whether they 
really need this option or not.

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

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