[Python-Dev] Impaired Usability of the Mercurial Source Viewer

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/31/2011 7:15 PM, Raymond Hettinger 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:

I complete agree with this. The bars are for super long lines, 
especially of data, as with 132 char Fortran output on old ibm printers. 
Even then, the bars were 3 lines wide. 80- char text lines do not need them.


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Terry Jan Reedy