Ismael Luceno <ismael@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. 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? >> A larger issue is that we haven't heard from Pat, who has been >> helping git-gui.sh maintenance, for quite a while, so we'd need to >> find a volunteer to act as a replacement maintainer. If you are >> willing to, that would be great ;-) > > Sure.
