Re: VC's modeline

[Markus Triska]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> In my experience 99% of Emacs users have no idea that the ":" between
> the backend name and the "version info" means that the file is
> locally modified.

I agree! I think using "*" would be a much better indicator to indicate
that the file is modified locally, in analogy to the "**" that is used
to show that the Emacs buffer is modified.

> So this info is not of very high value.

At least to me, this info *is* of very high value! I think it only
should be made more readable, using "*".

All the best,
Markus