On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Colin Caughie <c.caug...@indigovision.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mads Kiilerich [mailto:m...@kiilerich.com] >> Sent: 02 February 2010 11:33 >> To: Colin Caughie >> Cc: tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [thg] Ctrl-C kills open TortoiseHG windows >> >> Colin Caughie wrote, On 02/02/2010 12:00 PM: >> > Hi, >> > >> > One thing I've been finding really annoying about TortoiseHG at >> the moment (one of the only things in fact) is the fact that if you >> launch hgtk from a command prompt, and then some time later hit >> Ctrl-C in that command prompt, it kills all of your hgtk windows. I >> just lost a very long commit message that way. >> > >> > Is there a way to disable this behaviour, or should I raise an >> issue in the bug tracker? >> > >> >> Ctrl-C in a unix command prompt is meant to stop the running >> program. It >> would be annoying if it didn't. It is unfortunate that Ctrl-C also >> is >> one of the most common gui shortcuts, but tortoisehg is not the >> place to >> get a revolution of this started. > > Sorry I should have said I'm running on Windows. I agree that on Linux, where > hgtk blocks the shell while the window is open, it makes perfect sense for > Ctrl-C to kill the window. > > But on Windows, hgtk forks off a background process to run the window so that > you can continue to use the command prompt for other things. If you then use > that command prompt to run something else, completely unrelated to > TortoiseHG, and have to kill it using Ctrl-C, it kills the hgtk window as > well. I would consider this a bug as it is completely unexpected.
That's news to me. Can you file an enhancement request for this? -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
