bug#66464: Vc mode-line

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11/11/2023 20:50, Juri Linkov wrote:
> Currently the options are aligned and provide a nice review
> what the user will see on the mode line:
>
>   :type '(choice (const :tag "Show project name and status" with-project)
>                  (const :tag "Show backend and status" t)
>                  (const :tag "Show only backend name" nil))
>
> So I'd rather like to describe more details in the docstring.

I don't like the semantics of this sentence (it implies that VC's mode 
line item will show the project name but it doesn't), but I'm not going 
to argue more.

> Probably it should be sufficient to describe this in the docstring
> like in this patch?

It's good, thank you.

> PS: Probably we could also add another option `no-backend'
> that will show only an indicator and the branch name.
> But the dangling indicator such as "-" or "*" before the branch name
> doesn't look nice when there is a space that separates it
> from the project name, e.g. "project -branch".

It would probably make more sense to me, but having both might be overkill.

FWIW, with the custom mode-line that I use (smart-mode-line) the results 
of these two options would look the same -- space-separated anyway.