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<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>The Hg source viewer needs to be tweaked to improve its usability.</div><div>What we've got now is a step backwards from the previous svn viewer.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at <a href="http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/linecache.py">http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/linecache.py</a> for example,</div><div>there are two issues. 1) the code cannot be cut-and-pasted because the</div><div>line numbers are commingled with the source text. 2) the code is hard</div><div>to read because of the alternating white and gray bars.</div><div><br></div><div>Contrast that to the more typical, beautiful presentations with a solid</div><div>background and the ability to cut-and-paste without grabbing line</div><div>numbers:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://dpaste.org/qyKv/">http://dpaste.org/qyKv/</a></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577629-namedtupleabc-abstract-base-class-mix-in-for-named/">http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577629-namedtupleabc-abstract-base-class-mix-in-for-named/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raymond</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>P.S. The old svn viewer worked great (looked good and could be cut),</div><div>but that was changed just before the Mercurial switchover (the fonts</div><div>changed, the line numbering code changed, and the leading changed),</div><div>so it is not a good comparison anymore.</div></body></html>
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