While it's true that the behavior is a little different from the staging panel,
where the staged lines are actually removed from the view and in many cases the
selection stays more or less in the same place, it is still very useful to move
to the next stageable thing in the custom patch building view too.
This improves the experience when selecting a hunk generously with the mouse, by
dragging over it including some context lines above and below. Previously we
would consider the "moving end" of the selection range for whether things need
to be added or removed, but this doesn't make sense if it's a context line. Now
we consider the first actual change line that is included in the range.
I took the set of enabled checks from revive's recommended configuration [1],
and removed some that I didn't like. There might be other useful checks in
revive that we might want to enable, but this is a nice improvement already.
The bulk of the changes here are removing unnecessary else statements after
returns, but there are a few others too.
[1] https://github.com/mgechev/revive?tab=readme-ov-file#recommended-configuration
For editable views it is important to actually show the blank line so that we
can put the cursor there for typing.
This fixes problems with adding blank lines at the end of longer commit
messages.
This makes it so that when the staging view is resized, we keep the same patch
line selected (as opposed to the same view line, which may correspond to a
different patch line after resizing). It doesn't seem like a terribly important
feature for resizing the window, but it is essential when initially entering the
staging view: we select the first line of the first hunk in this case, but we do
that before layout runs. At layout time the view is then split into
unstaged/staged changes, and if this split is horizontal, the view gets narrower
and may be wrapped in a different way. With this commit we ensure that the first
line of the first hunk is still selected after that.
So far, lines in the view corresponded 1:1 to lines in the patch. Once we turn
on wrapping for the staging view (which we don't do yet), this is no longer
true, so we need to convert from view lines to patch lines or vice versa all
over the place.
When clicking in a single-file diff view to enter staging (or custom patch
editing, when coming from the commit files panel), and then pressing shift-down
or shift-up to select a range, it would move the selected line rather than
creating a range. Only on the next press would it start to select a range from
there.
This is very similar to the fix we made for pressing escape in 0e4d266a52.
When clicking in a single-file diff view to enter staging (or custom patch
editing, when coming from the commit files panel), you needed to press escape
twice to exit, where the first press would seemingly do nothing.
The reason for this was that after clicking in the diff we end up in non-sticky
range select mode, but only with a single line selected, which is basically
indistinguishable from line select mode.
I prefer this because I almost never use sticky range selections. Also, this
fixes the issue that just clicking a line in a diff (without dragging) already
creates a range selection. It still does, technically, but it's no longer a
problem because a non-sticky one-line range selection behaves the same as a
non-range selection.
We're not fully standardising here: different contexts can store their range state however
they like. What we are standardising on is that now the view is always responsible for
highlighting the selected lines, meaning the context/controller needs to tell the view
where the range start is.
Two convenient benefits from this change:
1) we no longer need bespoke code in integration tests for asserting on selected lines because
we can just ask the view
2) line selection in staging/patch-building/merge-conflicts views now look the same as in
list views i.e. the highlight applies to the whole line (including trailing space)
I also noticed a bug with merge conflicts not rendering the selection on focus though I suspect
it wasn't a bug with any real consequences when the view wasn't displaying the selection.
I'm going to scrap the selectedRangeBgColor config and just let it use the single line
background color. Hopefully nobody cares, but there's really no need for an extra config.
Previously, when pressing right-arrow when the cursor is already in the last
hunk, it would jump back to the beginning of that hunk. This can be confusing if
the hunk is long, maybe the start of the hunk is already scrolled off the top of
the window, and then pressing right-arrow actually scrolls *backwards*, which is
counter-intuitive. It's better to do nothing in this case.
Same for left-arrow when the cursor is already in the first hunk, although here
the problem is not so severe (unless diff context was increased by a huge
amount, and the start of the first hunk is scrolled off the bottom of the
window).
Previously, the current line was only moved as much as necessary so that it's in
view again. This had the problem that when jumping downwards from hunk to hunk
with the right-arrow key, only the first line of the new hunk was shown at the
bottom of the window. I prefer to put the selected line in the middle of the
view in this case, so that I can see more of the newly selected hunk.
This has the consequence that when scrolling through the view line by line using
down-arrow, the view jumps by half a screen whenever I reach the bottom. I can
see how some users might be opposed to this change, but I happen to like it too,
because it allows me to see more context of what's ahead.
