From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC-Dired now lists unregistered files, marked with "?"... Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:26:34 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20071228102634.GD23009@thyrsus.com> References: <20071227162028.E8C1C830BC9@snark.thyrsus.com> <200712271931.lBRJVYn7017640@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198837611 6799 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2007 10:26:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 28 11:27:05 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 1J8CQj-0000xB-Fi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:27:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8CQN-0001zu-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:26:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8CQF-0001wN-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:26:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8CQD-0001vg-Kf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:26:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8CQD-0001vY-99 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J8CQC-0002yi-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 6D3A2830BC9; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:26:34 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200712271931.lBRJVYn7017640@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:85538 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu : > IMHO they should. The unregistered files are always "interesting" for a > user because he might want to register them. The non-terse mode shows > too many files... On the other hand...I'm working on a survey paper on VCSes right now, The directory includes a small handful of registered files, and several subdirectories that are VCS source trees I'm keeping around for reference. Displaying all of the several thousand unregistered files in those trees in terse mode just swamps the real information (I tried it that way). > BTW, for consistency with PCL-CVS and with the vc-dired display for > other states shouldn't "(Unknown)" be better than just "?" ? I considered exactly that, but "(unknown)" would actually be wrong in this instance; the VC state of the file is known. Alas, "(unregistered)" doesn't fit in the status field. See my next post on changing VC's status display. -- Eric S. Raymond