Hi Darcsers when a few versions ago 'darcs changes' aquired the --interactive switch I immediately put 'changes interactive' in my ~/.darcs/default, so now I say just 'darcs changes' to view the last few patches. It now happened to me for the n-th time that I wished I could select another darcs command to be performed for the patch currently under consideration by 'darcs changes'.
For instance, suppose I am viewing the 5-th last patch when I notice that I made a typo in the patch name. What I'd like to do is say "Right here, amend this patch" (I have 'amend-record edit-long-description' in my ~/.darcs/default, too). Or I am curious whether I have already pushed this patch to the default repo, so I want to 'darcs push --dry-run' this patch, or maybe even really 'darcs push' it. As it is, I must say 'q', then move my hand to the mouse to select the patch name (or part of it), then say darcs whatever -p''<left arrow> hit middle mouse button etc and afterwards repeat 'darcs changes' and hit 5 times 'n' to be at the same place I was before. Now, I realize that it would maybe not be such a good idea to have 'darcs changes' do something other than showing changes. But... what about a new command for the same purpose? So here is my strawman proposal: I'd like to have a new command named 'do'. When I say 'darcs do', it first behaves like 'darcs changes -i'. However, it offers *one* additional key-press-triggered action: when you hit 'e', it switches to "darcs command mode", where I get a different selection of keys to chose from, one where each key corresponds to a darcs command (and one to return to the "darcs changes" mode). If I chose a command, then the effect is the same as if I had done darcs <command> --matches='exact <patch-name>' where <command> is the name of the command you selected and <patch-name> is the name of the patch under consideration. I think this would be an extremely convenient feature. I am almost tempted to checkout the darcs repo and start hacking on this. What do you think? Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
