From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-mode-line Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:20:47 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87k4o53uao.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <83lj8tb2yg.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrs5r2b6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281028886 10107 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2010 17:21:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 17:21:26 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 19:21:24 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh489-00086Z-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:21:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51284 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh483-0004pc-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35273 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh3OE-0004yT-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh3Bo-0001yp-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48507) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh3Bo-0001yi-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh3Bm-0005at-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:21:02 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ecd34.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.205.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:21:02 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ecd34.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:21:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ecd34.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9DT440JEnKks9Ajgqi4iO1gRM9w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:128307 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" 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