GNU bug report logs - #78890
31.0.50; Messy vc-annotate buffer names

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Message #95 received at 78890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>,
 Kristoffer Balintona <krisbalintona <at> gmail.com>, 78890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78890: 31.0.50; Messy vc-annotate buffer names
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:16:21 -0700

On 6/27/2025 4:11 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
> How about this (whitespace-only changes filtered out):

By inspection, this seems reasonable enough to me. Without some new 
uniquify functions, I suppose we can't get a perfect solution here. 
(Maybe not even *with* them either; how would we keep the Annotate 
buffer name in sync with the parent buffer name when its uniquified name 
updates?).

My main pet peeve is just that long buffer names are harder to read when 
their window is only 80 columns, and I use 80 column windows pretty much 
exclusively.

(That said, the "git blame" annotations are also problematic with 80 
column windows, but that's a somewhat separate issue. I've been mulling 
around the idea of using some fontification to optionally hide 
less-interesting parts of the annotation.)

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