Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Dustin Sallings]

On Saturday, Sep 27, 2003, at 08:13 US/Pacific, Tom Lord wrote:

>    Regarding the interat loop (the "Commit? ..." prompt):  walters'
>    script also illustrates that (a) one of the outputs of an editting
>    session should be a value that means "forget it -- abort the
>    commit" and (b) in general, editors themselves provide no good
>    mechanism for returning such a value.   Looking around at the
>    patterns of other programs that invoke editors -- the interact loop
>    was the only one I saw that addressed this very issue in a
>    reasonable way.

	Just a quick thought, what about having a header that indicates 
whether the commit should finish?

LogComplete: yes

	For the most common cases, this should avoid the need for an 
interactive loop.

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