Re: [Q] rebase -i: turn "pick" to "edit", make no change, what should happen?

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

I quite frequently use "edit" just to inspect commits, stop at random
points in the history, run tests and whatnot. So this would be a UX
regression for me because I do not want to change commit messages and
don't want to be bothered.

I sometimes (ab)use the "edit" exactly like that myself, so a
simple-minded unconditional change of behaviour would be a UX
regression to me as well.

With the introduction of the "break" command you can certainly argue
that "edit" is the wrong command to use in my case. Muscle memory is
hard to retrain though :)

Yes, with a vim macro or its Emacs equivalent, it should be just as
easy as doing "s/^pick /edit /" to insert "break" after every line
that begins with "pick ", but "just as easy" is still an unwanted
forced change to the end-users.  If I really wanted to, the right
and only way out is to introduce a new insn similar to "edit" but
behaves more like what I said earlier.

Thanks.