Re: Emacs 23.1 -- colored octagon in lower left corner?

[Richard Riley]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> 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

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