From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1 -- colored octagon in lower left corner? Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:40:42 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <86ebe621-4cfa-4032-a737-bf74e76dcbb4@q16g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239720105 17308 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2009 14:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:41:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 14 16:43:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LtjqO-0003kD-2W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:42:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44157 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ltjoz-0006rg-Ey for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:41:09 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.unit0.net!motzarella.org!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19e5cSuOqLFNOIHojXAxkx48DsqAu6MBnuclkfH3L+iLp77uxVAnzO4EQkZRwY9saJGzMHR+NygkHwXI4yIW85vmrJiSttacteT52U4i5nGv//W1PsOeAVy1jpM6sLOQQ59qqsaa5D64w== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:40:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18rlw8oAW1ReZ19kjklNeWXbj+dWqKZcT7y2SRvAbxxbQ== Cancel-Lock: sha1:lVwswQdXE/vNti8FblTN/TlC/v0= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168452 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63730 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Richard Riley writes: >> A very nice git package called git-emacs has an icon like that. >> >> http://tsgates.cafe24.com/git/git-emacs.html >> >> It would be nice if that feature was in base vc IMO. > > Which feature? Cryptic icons? > > [I say "cryptic" because it's obviously managed to confuse several > people in this thread...] Any icon would if you dont know what it is. Its simply a VC status and much clearer than tiny modeline text IMO. It would be nice in magit too as an option. > > Of course by default, Emacs will be put something like "Git-master" in > the modeline for git-controlled files, which certainly seems much more > clear. > > -Miles --