bug#2944: 23.0.91; vc-dir confusing at startup

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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."

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't
resolved at the time.)

It seems like you fixed the doc string a couple days after this.

As for the explanatory text in the vc -- I haven't seen much request for
that:  The mode line says [waiting] in bold, which seems sufficient, and
is how we do asynchronous stuff like this in several other modes.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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