From: Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On the author's terminal, the up-arrow input sequence is ^[[A, and thus fat-fingering an up-arrow into 'git checkout -p' is quite dangerous: git-add--interactive.perl will ignore the ^[ and [ characters and happily treat A as "discard everything". As a band-aid fix, use Term::Cap to get all terminal capabilities. Then use the heuristic that any capability value that starts with ^[ (i.e., \e in perl) must be a key input sequence. Finally, given an input that starts with ^[, read more characters until we have read a full escape sequence, then return that to the caller. We use a timeout of 0.5 seconds on the subsequent reads to avoid getting stuck if the user actually input a lone ^[. Since none of the currently recognized keys start with ^[, the net result is that the sequence as a whole will be ignored and the help displayed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I nearly managed to lose a bunch of uncommitted work today, but could salvage most of it from the pieces of diffs in the terminal scrollback. Sigh. Future work might include mapping such sequences to the keys they represent, so that (shift) up-arrow can be k (K) and (shift) down-arrow j (J), or some such. Oh yeah, PS: I'm alive ;-) git-add--interactive.perl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl index 4f08fe7..8f0839d 100755 --- a/git-add--interactive.perl +++ b/git-add--interactive.perl @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ my $normal_color = $repo->get_color("", "reset"); my $use_readkey = 0; +my $use_termcap = 0; +my %term_escapes; + sub ReadMode; sub ReadKey; if ($repo->config_bool("interactive.singlekey")) { @@ -53,6 +56,14 @@ Term::ReadKey->import; $use_readkey = 1; }; + eval { + require Term::Cap; + my $termcap = Term::Cap->Tgetent; + foreach (values %$termcap) { + $term_escapes{$_} = 1 if /^\e/; + } + $use_termcap = 1; + }; } sub colored { @@ -1067,6 +1078,14 @@ sub prompt_single_character { ReadMode 'cbreak'; my $key = ReadKey 0; ReadMode 'restore'; + if ($use_termcap and $key eq "\e") { + while (!defined $term_escapes{$key}) { + my $next = ReadKey 0.5; + last if (!defined $next); + $key .= $next; + } + $key =~ s/\e/^[/; + } print "$key" if defined $key; print "\n"; return $key; -- 1.7.5.1.520.g98107.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html