[darcs-users] UI consistency

[Benjamin Franksen]

On Thursday, September 13, 2012 14:20:49 Eric Kow wrote:
> On 24 August 2012 22:51, Ben Franksen <benjamin.franksen at bessy.de> wrote:
> > > I think this prompt is used in
> > > case the diff-command exits before the user is done (some graphical
> > > diffs do so, I think).
> > 
> > You mean programs that start the actual viewer as a background task (or
> > send
> > the file or directory names to an already running demon task) and then
> > exit,
> > so darcs thinks the user is done and deletes the temporary
> > files/directories
> > it created for the diff... yeah, that's a problem. I see. For the same
> > reason you should not set DARCS_EDITOR to a GUI editor that just opens
> > another window of an already running editor process and then exits. I
> > actually made that mistake when I started working with darcs and kept
> > wondering why my long comments didn't make it into the repo...
> 
> Apologies for the silence on your overall perspective on the UI consistency
> stuff.
> I just wanted to confirm this.
> 
> At some point, darcs grew a --no-pause-for-gui flag that you can use to
> suppress
> the behaviour.

Thanks, this is useful.

> Messy universe :-/

Indeed, and I appreciate your efforts to stem the tide of entropy ;-)

Cheers
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Ben Franksen
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