From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mode-line under vc Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:28:37 -0700 Message-ID: <200707170228.l6H2Scc2022785@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <18076.1046.673811.680457@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184639363 19744 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2007 02:29:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 17 04:29:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IAcoQ-00005w-2s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:29:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAcoP-0004d0-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAcoL-0004cl-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAcoJ-0004cZ-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAcoJ-0004cW-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IAcoJ-00059X-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6H2Scc2022785; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:28:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <18076.1046.673811.680457@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue\, 17 Jul 2007 11\:49\:42 +1200") Original-Lines: 37 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74941 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > I generally like the changes to the mode-line for files under version control > but have a few suggestions: Feel free to make changes in CVS. > 1) "Edited file" sounds a bit ambiguous to me, like maybe I haven't saved my > changes. "Locally Modified" is what CVS uses with "cvs status", and this > seems clearer to me. Good idea. > 2) Do we really need to explain that "CVS" in the mode-line means > "under the CVS version control system" in the help-echo? It's kind of > long and seems a bit repetitive, unlike explaining the difference between > ":" and "-" which _is_ obscure. The reason I added it is that it can happen that people are not familiar with some of the (now many) version control systems... Inside a company different projects can use different version control systems. It would be nice if we had the "pretty" name available: SVN is actually Subversion HG is Mercurial (bzr is Bazaar?) > 3) Its not clear what VC is in "mouse-1: VC Menu". Replacing it with > "mouse-1: version control" would be self-explanatory and help compensate for > the proposed change in 2). IMO the "menu" should appear there, to make it very obvious what you get, if you use mouse-1 > With these changes I also think the help-echo would fit well on one line. > > -- > Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob