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bug#2944: 23.0.91; vc-dir confusing at startup
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#2944: 23.0.91; vc-dir confusing at startup |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:14:28 -0700 (PDT) |
Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I just ran vc-dir for the first time. It worked -- after a while.
> However, at first it displayed just a few lines of info
> about the overall VC handling of the directory. It seemed
> to be doing the wrong job.
>
> So I started to wonder if that were the wrong command.
> I looked at the doc string and it did not clarify the question.
> It says it "shows the VC status for DIR". The few lines
> that were displayed seemed to fit that description.
>
> Eventually the info on files did appear. But this is a bug anyway.
>
> I think the doc string should be fixed, and the buffer should
> start out containing explanatory text such as
> "The status of files is being computed
> and will be displayed here when that is done."
The problem with not showing something in VC buffer is a common one for
asynchronous VC commands (diff, log). The solution we have in emacs-23
for that is to add [Working...] on the modeline while such command is in
progress. Was that not obvious enough? Does the face for that message
need to stand out a bit more?
Please feel free to fix the doc string the way you want it.