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| See ESCDELAY environment variable in ncurses(3x) to reduce the one | ||
| second delay after pressing the escape key. Nowadays, | ||
| `export ESCDELAY=100` should be more than enough. |
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LGTM, I don't know if it would make sense to link to this page from the README's bug reporting section.
Good idea. Is this appropriate ?
Bugs and Feature Requests
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+Please check out the
+https://github.com/jonas/tig/blob/master/TROUBLESHOOTING.adoc[troubleshooting guide]
+if you are experiencing issues with Tig.
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Yes, or we could also add it to book.md to make it part of the documentation site and link to it "relatively" using
link:TROUBLESHOOTING.{docext}[troubleshooting guide]I can do that if you prefer in a future PR.
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I have pushed my current state to the PR, I'll be happy if you want to take the lead on it. Edit at your convenience.
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| To check that your locale is present in the list of available locales, | ||
| use `locale -a | grep "$LANG"`. |
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I get
$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX
$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
and I think it works fine, so I guess
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| use `locale -a | grep "$LANG"`. | |
| use `locale -a | grep -i "$LANG"`. |
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Thanks for reporting, looks like utf8 is a Linux oddity. -i won't help because of the missing hyphen. So I'd rather reword to:
-To check that your locale is present in the list of available locales,
-use `locale -a | grep "$LANG"`.
+Use `locale -a` to check if your `LANG` variable is present in the
+list of available locales (on Linux, you may find that `UTF-8` has
+been substituted for `utf8` but they are equivalent).There was a problem hiding this comment.
Sounds good, thanks!
systemd's localectl list-locales uses en_US.UTF-8, but of course that's not available elsewhere.
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| Note that the ability to set the `LANG` variable to values such as | ||
| `en_DE` with KDE does not infer their validity. |
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| Note that the ability to set the `LANG` variable to values such as | |
| `en_DE` with KDE does not infer their validity. | |
| Note that the ability to set the `LANG` variable to values such as | |
| `en_DE` with KDE does not imply their validity. |
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| Some OS (e.g. OS X 10.11) are shipping with an incomplete terminfo | ||
| description for screen resulting, for example, in diff-highlight option |
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| Some OS (e.g. OS X 10.11) are shipping with an incomplete terminfo | |
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| Some OS (e.g. OS X 10.11) are shipping with an incomplete terminfo | |
| description for screen resulting, for example, in the diff-highlight option |
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