Re: VC-Dired now lists unregistered files, marked with "?"...

[Eric S. Raymond]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
> IMHO they should. The unregistered files are always "interesting" for a
> user because he might want to register them. The non-terse mode shows
> too many files...

On the other hand...I'm working on a survey paper on VCSes right now,
The directory includes a small handful of registered files, and several
subdirectories that are VCS source trees I'm keeping around for reference.
Displaying all of the several thousand unregistered files in those trees
in terse mode just swamps the real information (I tried it that way).

> BTW, for consistency with PCL-CVS and with the vc-dired display for
> other states shouldn't "(Unknown)" be better than just "?" ?

I considered exactly that, but "(unknown)" would actually be wrong in
this instance; the VC state of the file is known.  Alas, "(unregistered)"
doesn't fit in the status field.

See my next post on changing VC's status display.
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