[darcs-users] UI consistency

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Thu Sep 13 13:20:49 UTC 2012


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.

Messy universe :-/

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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