nano

commit 9e182722ccd2d51592cc894692159f6feefa8a37
parent 4f1eb5fdd4f9962961f59c36a97895e51fadd63f
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date:   Sun, 19 May 2019 19:44:27 +0200

feedback: print helpful message only when data comes from keyboard

When the data is fed to nano through a pipe, it is pointless to print
this message as it can be seen only after nano has exited.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56348.

Diffstat:
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src/nano.c
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6
++++--

1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/nano.c b/src/nano.c
@@ -1065,8 +1065,10 @@ bool scoop_stdin(void)
 	endwin();
 	tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &oldterm);
 
-	fprintf(stderr, _("Reading from standard input; type ^D or ^D^D to finish.\n"));
-
+	/* When input comes from a terminal, show a helpful message. */
+	if (isatty(0))
+		fprintf(stderr, _("Reading data from keyboard; "
+							"type ^D or ^D^D to finish.\n"));
 #ifndef NANO_TINY
 	/* Enable interpretation of the special control keys so that
 	 * we get SIGINT when Ctrl-C is pressed. */