great answer, thank you. for clarity, the REASON i use a paleolithic version of magit is that i need those headers. :) i'll try to stick with old magit for the time being; dunno if emacs upgrades will allow that.
On 11/20/22, Jonas Bernoulli <[email protected]> wrote: > Samuel Wales <[email protected]> writes: > >> i am currently using a version of emacs that is probably not supported >> by modern magit. i tried it, anyway. > > You'll need at least Emacs 25.1. > >> in any case, however, i have been using a paleolithic version of >> magit, because it shows --- +++ headers in the status buffer. > > Very old indeed. > >> at some >> point, magit stopped showing those. but i have searched recently, and >> maybe it can show them? > > No, that's not possible anymore. The information in those lines is > quite redundant. In the future it be become possible to show those > lines again, for the sake of doing the same as other tools (okay and > also to be able to copy-paste into those other tools). But this is > a very low priority, i.e., this might become possible again as a > side-effect of large changes, not because it is a goal in itself. > >> i found magit-insert-status-headers in what look like remarkably >> comprehensive online docs, but also a report that it is/was slow >> [which doesn't really make sense if it is for --- +++ headers]. > > This function is unrelated. It is responsible for showing the > information at the very top of the status buffer, such as the current > branch and its upstream. And the latest tag--that's the part that can > be very slow in some repositories. > >> does modern magit support --- +++ headers? >> >> anything else i might like to know about modern magit? it seems a lot >> of development has occurred. > > Err...yes. Tons of new stuff. It generally dwims more. > >> it seems the package is still well received. >> >> thanks! :). > > Cheers, > Jonas > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "magit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/magit/CAJcAo8vKA2knD2ungnR-BkrU3cQBoHHvajrKe_yXZJow_4vnXA%40mail.gmail.com.
