Issue 2332: Attempting to enter default choice key literally gives unhelpful message - Darcs bug tracker

Title	Attempting to enter default choice key literally gives unhelpful message
Priority		Status	resolved
Milestone		Resolved in	2.10.0
Superseder		Nosy List	DaniilFrumin, owst
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2013-07-19.13:20:05 by owst, last changed 2014-02-09.16:01:25 by noreply.

Messages
msg16915 (view)	Author: owst	Date: 2013-07-19.13:20:03
1. Summarise the issue (what were doing, what went wrong?) If a user enters the default choice literally (as an uppercase letter) darcs isn't very helpful: ~/code/darcs.net % darcs cha Thu Jul 4 14:36:29 BST 2013 Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com> * update help of mark-conflicts Shall I view this patch? (1/?) [yN...], or ? for more options: N Invalid response, try again! 2. What behaviour were you expecting instead? Darcs should tell me that the uppercase letter is a default: ~/code/darcs.net % darcs cha Thu Jul 4 14:36:29 BST 2013 Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com> * update help of mark-conflicts Shall I view this patch? (1/?) [yN...], or ? for more options: N Invalid response: choices must be lowercase. The default choice is listed as uppercase, which is chosen by pressing <Space>.
msg16917 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2013-07-19.13:34:15
Or it could just accept it, as there is no ambiguity.
msg16918 (view)	Author: owst	Date: 2013-07-19.13:40:46
Yes, you're right, that's better. So darcs should just accept the default option in lower or upper case.
msg17143 (view)	Author: DaniilFrumin	Date: 2014-01-26.13:16:04
Is it always the case that there is no ambiguity? And if so, maybe it is possible to just convert user input toLower in all the cases?
msg17189 (view)	Author: noreply	Date: 2014-02-09.16:01:24
The following patch sent by Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com> updated issue issue2332 with status=resolved;resolvedin=2.10.0 HEAD * resolve issue2332: ignore case of characters in prompt Ignore-this: 1b6d417b5d707a95d2d6e6dc6aff7a4b

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2013-07-19 13:20:05	owst	create
2013-07-19 13:34:15	gh	set	messages: + msg16917
2013-07-19 13:40:47	owst	set	messages: + msg16918
2014-01-26 13:16:05	DaniilFrumin	set	nosy: + DaniilFrumin messages: + msg17143
2014-02-09 16:01:25	noreply	set	status: unknown -> resolved messages: + msg17189 resolvedin: 2.10.0