[Python-Dev] Impaired Usability of the Mercurial Source Viewer (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Apr 1 02:30:32 CEST 2011

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:15:48 -0700 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

The Hg source viewer needs to be tweaked to improve its usability. What we've got now is a step backwards from the previous svn viewer.

Looking at http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/linecache.py for example, there are two issues. 1) the code cannot be cut-and-pasted because the line numbers are commingled with the source text. 2) the code is hard to read because of the alternating white and gray bars. Contrast that to the more typical, beautiful presentations with a solid background and the ability to cut-and-paste without grabbing line numbers:

This is something you need to discuss with the Mercurial project. See http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/ and http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ContributingChanges

The advantage of Mercurial over SVN is that it's written in Python ;)

Regards

Antoine.

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