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

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 03:20:53 CEST 2011

On Mar 31, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Le jeudi 31 mars 2011 à 17:46 -0700, Raymond Hettinger a écrit :

On Mar 31, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

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 Are you saying that our official code viewer isn't configurable without getting a change through the Hg project itself? Well, it is something that is configurable through patching. You might want to keep the patch private to hg.python.org, of course. But perhaps you can also convince Mercurial devs that they should it themselves, if you are persuasive enough ;)

Surely, we at least have control over our own CSS. At http://hg.python.org/cpython/static/style-paper.css there are two lines that control the alternating bars:

.parity0 { background-color: #f0f0f0; } .parity1 { background-color: white; }

One of those could be changed to match the other so that we at can at least get a solid background.

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