Under bash another way to achieve the goal of temporarily putting your partially written commit command aside is to do: ^a ^k This puts your command in the cut buffer. To retrieve it (after having run fossil gdiff to figure out what you did!) just do: ^y
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, all, > > This is for Unix-shell users only (including workalikes on Windows)... > > Here's a time-saving tip which i use very often myself, but most CLI users > i know don't seem to know about: > > It often happens that i'm typing a commit message when i decide i need to > stop and go check if what i'm typing in really reflects reality (or needs > to be tested). So: > > fossil commit -m ".........<INTERRUPT POINT> > > You can stick that line in your command history without executing it by > doing the following: > > 1) Move your cursor to the beginning of the line. In Bash-like shells > that's normally Ctrl-A, but many terminals support the Home key as well. > > 2) Type the '#' character (shift-3 on a US keyboard). That's the shell's > comment-to-end-of-line marker. > > 3) Tap ENTER > > Or, in the Bash shell, simply: > > 1) Tap Escape, then type the # character. That does all 3 of the above at > once. > > > Happy Fossiling! > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- Matt -=- 90% of the nations wealth is held by 2% of the people. Bummer to be in the majority...
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