Hi David et al, David KÃgedal wrote: > Sergei Organov <osv@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Now, I've evaluated (require 'format-spec) in my Emacs 22 (yes, 22, not >> 23), and now git-blame almost works there. The problem I see is that it >> doesn't output anything in the echo area. It color-codes the buffer, it >> does show correct pop-up when mouse is over a region, but it doesn't >> print anything in the echo area when I move cursor through the regions. >> Any idea how to debug/fix this? > > Well, it appears I removed the output to the echo area. I didn't think > it worked very well, and the new output format mostly replaces it by > showing the hash. > > There are also technical reasons for removing it (it couldn't be > implemented very cleanly). I don't use git-blame.el ("git blame", "git gui blame", and "git log -S/-G" take care of my needs already) but it seems to me that this change was a regression. The emacs support before v1.6.6-rc0~120^2 had a simple way to find out the purpose of each line of code, while after that there is no simple way. And it is what the README promises: * git-blame.el: Emacs implementation of incremental git-blame. When you turn it on while viewing a file, the editor buffer will be updated by setting the background of individual lines to a color that reflects which commit it comes from. And when you move around the buffer, a one-line summary will be shown in the echo area. Any advice for people who want to fix that? Is anyone interested in doing so? (It is quite likely I am guessing incorrectly about what is useful, but I would imagine that at least the documentation could use updating.) Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html