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Message #26 received at 66317 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 66317 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
Subject: Re: bug#66317: Project mode-line
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 21:04:03 +0300

On 03/10/2023 20:58, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> On 03/10/2023 20:11, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>>> This looks nice (I actually have something similar in my
>>>> `mode-line-format` already), but I think that modifying
>>>> `mode-line-format` when project.el is loaded is a bit problematic.
>>>> Perhaps a better alternative would be to define a variable that holds
>>>> this mode-line construct, along with an autoloaded function that people
>>>> can call from their init files to actually add this construct to
>>>> `mode-line-format`.  WDYT?
>>> In bug#63469 I implemented 'project-mode' with the buffer-local
>>> variable 'project-name'.  But due to objections I rewrote this
>>> to simpler and direct implementation.  I could revive the previous
>>> patch now.
>> Could you make it a user option 'project-show-in-mode-line' or similar?
>>
>> Minor mode 'project-mode-line-mode' would also be okay.
> But there is no such mode for vc-mode (vc-mode is not a proper mode).

VC Mode is just always on globally (though there is a variable 
vc-handled-backends which can be disabled). And as such, it always adds 
runtime overhead.

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