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: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:55:08 -0800 Message-ID: <200803070355.m273t8c0012796@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18371.9275.720477.806834@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <2vzltos6g1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18371.49683.356527.589505@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18377.55334.203888.524043@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <434pbqcaz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <200803021853.m22IrRvA000730@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031858.m23IwToH009344@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803041839.m24Idmis008291@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803052150.m25Loonc011429@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204862199 29007 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2008 03:56:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 03:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 04:57:06 2008 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 1JXThg-00081Y-JM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:57:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXTh9-0006Te-1t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:56:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXTh2-0006Qe-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:56:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXTh0-0006Pr-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXTh0-0006Pl-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:56:22 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXTgt-0005BF-DS; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:56:15 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205466912.14794@p+0eYVbOHZBWv2df+EGkLA Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m273t8c0012796; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:55:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:38:30 -0500") Original-Lines: 26 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: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:91603 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Please don't, there temporarily was some for a few months, and it was > discussed at length on the list and voted out. It is annoying when you > have to copy the buffer that there's extra text that is not part of the > diff that you have to deal with. > > Suppose it says "End of diff output". That's approximately what it used to say, and it was very much hated, and voted out. > Why is it a problem if you copy that along with the diff? If you > copy that, what harm does it do? It forces you to do yet another operation (delete the extra output) every time when copying from the diff buffer to and email message, or some other place. We do have a superior, very intuitive solution (i.e. displaying the running status in the mode-line), that does not require extra work, so it is not a good idea to go back to something that does not provide any advantage, but requires extra work in the case of copying from the diff buffer (which nowadays is quite a frequent operations, many many patches get emailed between developers). > It won't bother `patch'. It will bother the reader though.