On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 08:46:03AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> It happens ONLY when the error message the editor itself emits > >> (which comes later on the same line as "We are waiting for your > >> editor...") without terminating newline itself. Otherwise, we'd > >> have > >> > >> We are waiting ... THE EDITOR SAYS I FAILED > >> _ > >> > >> on the screen, and the cursor is at the _ position. term_clear_line() > >> would not clear anything. > > > > Not with a careless editor: > > That is why I said "Otherwise". Of course, a broken editor would > give broken output. What else is new? And more importantly, if you > wrote such an editor, would you release it in such a buggy form to > the outside world? Does it still look like a problem worth spending > our brain cycles on? > Yes, but I also see it from another perspective; I don't want to worry about a possible inconvenience. And since it is perhaps an unexpected precaution, for a future reviewer, hence the explicit comment in the code.
