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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@red-bean.com> on 2007/10/04 19:22:22 UTC
small prompting tweak?
I got an interactive conflict when updating this morning, something like:
Conflict received on file foo.c.
Select: (p)ostpone, (d)iff, (e)dit, (r)esolved, (h)elp:
As soon as I saw the filename, I knew I wanted to toss my changes, and
accept the incoming version from the file instead. But there was no
option displayed to do that!
After a minute of frustration and confusion, I ran (h)elp, and was
reminded to choose (t)heirs, and all was well.
The irony here is that I'm the one who originally suggested that the
prompt only show a small subset of (the most common) operations,
rather than all possible operations. And then two months later, I
forget about this and get burned by it. :-)
I have a simple suggestion. Instead just printing (h)elp as the last
thing in the prompt, how about:
Select: (p)ostpone, (d)iff, (e)dit, (r)esolved, (h)elp for more options:
...so that I'm at least reminded that there *are* more options to
choose from, that I'm not locked into the small list of choices in
front of me?
Markphip also had a suggestion, that we simply replace (h)elp with
(m)ore. That could work too.
Objections/thoughts?
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Re: small prompting tweak?
Posted by Justin Erenkrantz <ju...@erenkrantz.com>.
On Oct 4, 2007 12:22 PM, Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@red-bean.com> wrote:
> I have a simple suggestion. Instead just printing (h)elp as the last
> thing in the prompt, how about:
>
> Select: (p)ostpone, (d)iff, (e)dit, (r)esolved, (h)elp for more options:
+1. (I had no idea there were more options.)
> Markphip also had a suggestion, that we simply replace (h)elp with
> (m)ore. That could work too.
Ick. -- justin
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Re: small prompting tweak?
Posted by Karl Fogel <kf...@red-bean.com>.
"Ben Collins-Sussman" <su...@red-bean.com> writes:
> I have a simple suggestion. Instead just printing (h)elp as the last
> thing in the prompt, how about:
>
> Select: (p)ostpone, (d)iff, (e)dit, (r)esolved, (h)elp for more options:
>
> ...so that I'm at least reminded that there *are* more options to
> choose from, that I'm not locked into the small list of choices in
> front of me?
>
> Markphip also had a suggestion, that we simply replace (h)elp with
> (m)ore. That could work too.
>
> Objections/thoughts?
+1
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Re: small prompting tweak?
Posted by David Glasser <gl...@davidglasser.net>.
On 10/4/07, Daniel Rall <dl...@collab.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007, Karl Fogel wrote:
>
> > "Ben Collins-Sussman" <su...@red-bean.com> writes:
> > > I have a simple suggestion. Instead just printing (h)elp as the last
> > > thing in the prompt, how about:
> > >
> > > Select: (p)ostpone, (d)iff, (e)dit, (r)esolved, (h)elp for more options:
> > >
> > > ...so that I'm at least reminded that there *are* more options to
> > > choose from, that I'm not locked into the small list of choices in
> > > front of me?
> >
> > +1
>
> +1
Yeah, +1.
(I don't like (m)ore, because it makes me think of the more pager...)
--dave
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Re: small prompting tweak?
Posted by Daniel Rall <dl...@collab.net>.
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007, Karl Fogel wrote:
> "Ben Collins-Sussman" <su...@red-bean.com> writes:
> > I have a simple suggestion. Instead just printing (h)elp as the last
> > thing in the prompt, how about:
> >
> > Select: (p)ostpone, (d)iff, (e)dit, (r)esolved, (h)elp for more options:
> >
> > ...so that I'm at least reminded that there *are* more options to
> > choose from, that I'm not locked into the small list of choices in
> > front of me?
>
> +1
+1
Re: small prompting tweak?
Posted by Karl Fogel <kf...@red-bean.com>.
"Ben Collins-Sussman" <su...@red-bean.com> writes:
> I have a simple suggestion. Instead just printing (h)elp as the last
> thing in the prompt, how about:
>
> Select: (p)ostpone, (d)iff, (e)dit, (r)esolved, (h)elp for more options:
>
> ...so that I'm at least reminded that there *are* more options to
> choose from, that I'm not locked into the small list of choices in
> front of me?
+1
> Markphip also had a suggestion, that we simply replace (h)elp with
> (m)ore. That could work too.
>
> Objections/thoughts?
"(m)" is already taken for "(m)ine".
-Karl
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