From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Markus Triska Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC's modeline Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:33:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20160208185311.9470.7389@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <56B8F682.7040404@dancol.org> <83io1zosv7.fsf@gnu.org> <56B8FA6D.9070105@dancol.org> <87zivax3li.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455356021 30044 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2016 09:33:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 09:33:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 13 10:33:34 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aUWa5-00087i-Pj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:33:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUWa4-0005dG-P7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:33:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38468) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUWa0-0005co-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:33:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUWZx-0007Yc-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:33:28 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUWZx-0007YY-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:33:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aUWZw-000827-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:33:24 +0100 Original-Received: from 178.165.131.30.wireless.dyn.drei.com ([178.165.131.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:33:24 +0100 Original-Received: from triska by 178.165.131.30.wireless.dyn.drei.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:33:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.165.131.30.wireless.dyn.drei.com Cancel-Lock: sha1:0BVYQrVBpdsXmwVLzp2ocgKnkWw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199863 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > In my experience 99% of Emacs users have no idea that the ":" between > the backend name and the "version info" means that the file is > locally modified. I agree! I think using "*" would be a much better indicator to indicate that the file is modified locally, in analogy to the "**" that is used to show that the Emacs buffer is modified. > So this info is not of very high value. At least to me, this info *is* of very high value! I think it only should be made more readable, using "*". All the best, Markus