From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-mode-line Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:34:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83lj8tb2yg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280493319 27972 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2010 12:35:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:35:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 30 14:35:16 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 1Oeony-0003WE-Mh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:35:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42153 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oeony-0004Cp-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49795 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oeonm-0004Ck-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oeonh-0003Gg-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oeonh-0003GX-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oeonf-0003Lh-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from 82-69-137-158.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.137.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 82-69-137-158.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-69-137-158.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4ArOtcimqhTz0rxG3kq7JHv1b6U= 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:128015 Archived-At: On Fri 30 Jul 2010, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > This function's doc string (and the corresponding portion of the Emacs > manual) does not document all the possible characters that can appear > between the name of the back-end and the revision number. Fixing the docs would be useful. > I will take care of fixing that, but while at that, I'm surprised that > the characters selected to express the various statuses have such a > small mnemonic value. `-' would be much more appropriate for removed > files, and locally added files should use `+' rather than `@'. How > entrenched are the current indicators? is it possible to change them, > or will that cause massive breakage elsewhere and/or user outcry? Even more useful would be to replace this with something more like mode-line-format that allows the user to extend the information displayed. For example, it would be useful to display the current branch when working with files checked out from multiple repositories and branches. AndyM