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

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 03:42:35 CEST 2011

On Mar 31, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Le 01/04/2011 01:15, Raymond Hettinger a écrit :

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. You can use mirrors like: https://bitbucket.org/mirror/cpython/ On Bitbucket, line numbers are displayed, but you can copy/paste code without the line number. And the background is just white. For example: https://bitbucket.org/mirror/cpython/src/3558eecd84f0/Modules/faulthandler.c

That's way better:

https://bitbucket.org/mirror/cpython/src/3558eecd84f0/Lib/linecache.py

Why can't we have that for our primary source viewer.

Raymond

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