[Python-Dev] Impaired Usability of the Mercurial Source Viewer

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/3/31 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>:
>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:
>
> Le 01/04/2011 01:15, Raymond Hettinger a écrit :
>
> The Hg source viewer needs to be tweaked to improve its usability.
>
> What we've got now is a step backwards from the previous svn viewer.
>
> Looking at http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/linecache.py for
> example,
>
> there are two issues.   1) the code cannot be cut-and-pasted because the
>
> line numbers are commingled with the source text.  2) the code is hard
>
> to read because of the alternating white and gray bars.
>
> You can use mirrors like:
> https://bitbucket.org/mirror/cpython/
>
> On Bitbucket, line numbers are displayed, but you can copy/paste code
> without the line number. And the background is just white. For example:
> https://bitbucket.org/mirror/cpython/src/3558eecd84f0/Modules/faulthandler.c
>
>
> That's *way* better:
>   https://bitbucket.org/mirror/cpython/src/3558eecd84f0/Lib/linecache.py
> Why can't we have that for our primary source viewer.

Because it's closed source.



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Regards,
Benjamin