[darcs-devel] [issue728] darcs does not understand backspace

[Jason Dagit]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Josh Wilcox <bugs at darcs.net> wrote:
>
>  New submission from Josh Wilcox <wilcoxjg at gmail.com>:
>
>  Because darcs does not handle backspace in the expected way when I find it
>  almost impossible to add reasonable patch names.   This is extremely
>  irritating.

What is it not doing correctly for you?  Perhaps you could give us
more information about your computer (is it windows/linux/mac?), the
version of darcs and instructions on how to reproduce what you're
experiencing.  I've never had backspace be mishandled when using
'darcs record'.  Also, there is a command line option, -m, to set the
patch name.

So you could do:
darcs record -m "This is my patch name and backspace handling will be
done by my shell"

Then record the changes you want and you should be good to go.

Jason