[Pkg-tcltk-devel] git-gui: commit message box doesn't respond to enter (only return)

[Jonathan Nieder]

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forwarded 605041 http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3119824&group_id=12997&atid=112997
reassign 605041 tk8.5 8.5.9-1
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Hi Sergei,

Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:

> I've tested it on Debian Squeeze and added another comment on the
> upstream bug report. In short: KP_Enter is not bound to any action in
> Tk text widgets in X11, at least in 8.5.9.

As [1] mentions, this means the behavior is inconsistent between X11
and Windows (in addition to being surprising).

> But git-gui can be trivially patched to support this; that would be a
> one-lineer. So if it is desired and will be accepted, I could prepare a
> patch.

That might make sense to do in git-gui upstream.  For Debian, let's
track the tk bug. :)

Thanks for looking into this.
Jonathan