Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Suppose it says "End of diff output".  Why is it a problem if you copy
> that along with the diff?  If you copy that, what harm does it do?
> It won't bother `patch'.

I dunno, maybe it's just a personal foible, but emacs the "diff" command
used to add this sort of terminator line (haven't noticed recently) sort
of terminator string, and I always found it very annoying -- it probably
doesn't cause anything to _break_ but it was like an ugly little wart,
and I always ended up going to extra effort to delete it when saving the
output.

I think the highlighted mode-line status indicators used by
e.g. compile-mode (running or finished etc) now are really nice and do a
great job of quickly making me aware of what's going on.  I would love
it if asynchronous vc commands used a similar indicator to show their
status.

-Miles

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