From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-mode-line Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:16:21 -0400 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 1280981791 15486 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2010 04:16:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 04:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 06:16:30 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 1Ogrsa-0003fi-Ob for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:16:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34502 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OgrsZ-00026k-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37274 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OgrsU-00026f-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OgrsT-0007CW-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49499) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OgrsT-0007CS-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OgrsT-00034B-3E; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:16:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83lj8tb2yg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 30 Jul 2010 14\:53\:43 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:128268 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > 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. > > 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 It seems that '-' is used the same way as the mode line element that says the file is not modified. By that logic, then for an edited file we should use '*' not ':' > files, and locally added files should use `+' rather than `@'. How Looks like a good idea. > entrenched are the current indicators? is it possible to change them, > or will that cause massive breakage elsewhere and/or user outcry? Breakage? Probably not, all the VC backends that do something about the vc-mode-line would have change at the same time. Outcry... hard to say...