Simon Ruderich [off-list ref] writes:
Most distributions don't require Term::Readkey as dependency,
leaving the user to wonder why the setting doesn't work.
Signed-off-by: Simon Ruderich <redacted>
Thanks, but is it true that interactive.singlekey "requries"
Term::ReadKey?
The relevant part of git-add--interactive reads like so:
if ($repo->config_bool("interactive.singlekey")) {
eval {
require Term::ReadKey;
Term::ReadKey->import;
$use_readkey = 1;
};
eval {
require Term::Cap;
my $termcap = Term::Cap->Tgetent;
foreach (values %$termcap) {
$term_escapes{$_} = 1 if /^\e/;
}
$use_termcap = 1;
};
}
The implementation of prompt_single_character sub wants to use
ReadKey, but can still let the user interact with the program by
falling back to a cooked input when it is not available, so perhaps
a better fix might be something like this:
if (!$use_readkey) {
print STDERR "missing Term::ReadKey, disabling interactive.singlekey\n";
}
inside the above if() that prepares $use_readkey?
You also misspelled the package name it seems ;-)