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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-mode-line
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:20:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4o53uao.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wrs5r2b6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

> Miles Bader writes:
>
>  > If changing everything is OK, how about:
>  > 
>  >    ":"          unmodified but already in repo
>  >    "="          modified (emacs commonly associates "=" with "diff")
>
> I don't find that persuasive.  Before I scrolled to see this part I
> was already thinking "=" is unmodified, "*" is fine for modified since
> that's what it means for buffers.  If you think that the Emacs
> association of "=" with diff is too strong (I don't have a problem
> keeping those straight, actually; in modes where quick access to diff
> is useful I pronounce "=" as "equalp", YMMV, but that's my mnemonic),
> how about "#" for modified (looks like "not equal"), or "!"?

Is something like (if (char-displayable-p ?≠) "≠" "#") going to work
reliably?  However, I am not sure I consider it appropriate since
equality is not the same as being unmodified.

-- 
David Kastrup




  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-05 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-30 11:53 vc-mode-line Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-30 12:34 ` vc-mode-line Andy Moreton
2010-08-01 23:04   ` vc-mode-line Stefan Monnier
2010-07-30 15:52 ` vc-mode-line Leo
2010-08-05  4:16 ` vc-mode-line Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-05  4:55   ` vc-mode-line Miles Bader
2010-08-05  5:20     ` vc-mode-line Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-05  6:39     ` vc-mode-line Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-05 16:20       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-08-05 14:57     ` vc-mode-line Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-05 18:54     ` vc-mode-line Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-06  2:41       ` vc-mode-line Miles Bader
2010-08-06  3:38         ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06  4:59           ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06  5:13             ` vc-mode-line Miles Bader
2010-08-06  6:52               ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06  8:13                 ` vc-mode-line Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-06 14:23                   ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06 16:33                   ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06 18:12                     ` vc-mode-line Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-06  5:12           ` vc-mode-line Miles Bader
2010-08-10 15:29           ` vc-mode-line David House
2010-08-10 15:43             ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-12 13:08               ` vc-mode-line Ted Zlatanov

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