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

[Raymond Hettinger]

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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