Re: Emacs 23.1 -- colored octagon in lower left corner?

[Richard Riley]

"cmr.Pent@gmail.com" <cmr.Pent@gmail.com> writes:

> On 13 апр, 01:29, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
>> It might be a long shot, but it sounds like you're talking about 
>> this:http://nschum.de/src/emacs/test-case-mode/
>>
>
> Yes, this looks like what I see! However, in my Emacs the octagon
> appears for example in AucTeX buffers, which has nothing to do with
> unit tests...
>
> From some experiments, I now think that the octagon is somehow related
> to the file VCS (version control systems) status. A clarification from
> Emacs developers would be nice. Every time I see a red octagon I get
> worried subconsciously :-/
>
> Andrey Paramonov

A very nice git package called git-emacs has an icon like that.

http://tsgates.cafe24.com/git/git-emacs.html

It would be nice if that feature was in base vc IMO.