Re: add a tooltip and a mouse binding to the VC mode-line entry

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The VC item on  the mode-line is one of the very few that does not
>     have a tooltip nor does it have a mouse binding. 
>
> We can give it a mouse binding if there is something useful for that
> binding to do.  But is there anything that would be useful?

Offering to diff with some important points (recent checkins, major
branches, modified upstream) perhaps.

> There is no sense giving it a mouse binding just so it will have one
> if it isn't a useful and natural interface.
>
> If it doesn't have a mouse binding, it does not need a tooltip.

Disagreement here: the VC mode line indicators are concise, but
cryptic.  The difference between CVS-1.1 and CVS:1.1 is not clear to
many beginners.  A tooltip might help.

-- 
David Kastrup