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

[Antoine Pitrou]

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.