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Re: mode-line under vc
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: mode-line under vc |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:28:37 -0700 |
Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
> I generally like the changes to the mode-line for files under version
control
> but have a few suggestions:
Feel free to make changes in CVS.
> 1) "Edited file" sounds a bit ambiguous to me, like maybe I haven't saved my
> changes. "Locally Modified" is what CVS uses with "cvs status", and this
> seems clearer to me.
Good idea.
> 2) Do we really need to explain that "CVS" in the mode-line means
> "under the CVS version control system" in the help-echo? It's kind of
> long and seems a bit repetitive, unlike explaining the difference between
> ":" and "-" which _is_ obscure.
The reason I added it is that it can happen that people are not
familiar with some of the (now many) version control systems... Inside
a company different projects can use different version control
systems. It would be nice if we had the "pretty" name available:
SVN is actually Subversion
HG is Mercurial
(bzr is Bazaar?)
> 3) Its not clear what VC is in "mouse-1: VC Menu". Replacing it with
> "mouse-1: version control" would be self-explanatory and help compensate
for
> the proposed change in 2).
IMO the "menu" should appear there, to make it very obvious what you
get, if you use mouse-1
> With these changes I also think the help-echo would fit well on one line.
>
> --
> Nick
http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob