Re: pane border color issue on 1.8

2013-11-01 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Pavlos Parissis
 wrote:
> On 27/07/2013 01:18 μμ, Romain Francoise wrote:
>> Pavlos Parissis  writes:
>>
>>> This issue doesn't happen on 1.7 version.
>>> Any idea what could be the problem here?
>>
>> This is not a bug, it's a feature. When there's only two panes, the
>> separator is split in two to show which pane is active. Try switching
>> between the panes to understand the logic of it.
>>
>
> On 1.7 when I had 2 panes the whole pane line was colored but now with
> 1.8 only the half, this difference made be to believe that 1.8
> introduced a bug. But after your mail I realized that this is actual a
> very useful feature.

Interesting...  I was a bit confused by this as well, until I saw the
explanation here.

I wonder if it might be more intuitive if the active pane's border
consisted of something "pointing" in the right direction, like > < ^ v
(or their prettier Unicode counterparts)...

Dustin

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Re: pane border color issue on 1.8

2013-11-01 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 02:33:39PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Pavlos Parissis
>  wrote:
> > On 27/07/2013 01:18 μμ, Romain Francoise wrote:
> >> Pavlos Parissis  writes:
> >>
> >>> This issue doesn't happen on 1.7 version.
> >>> Any idea what could be the problem here?
> >>
> >> This is not a bug, it's a feature. When there's only two panes, the
> >> separator is split in two to show which pane is active. Try switching
> >> between the panes to understand the logic of it.
> >>
> >
> > On 1.7 when I had 2 panes the whole pane line was colored but now with
> > 1.8 only the half, this difference made be to believe that 1.8
> > introduced a bug. But after your mail I realized that this is actual a
> > very useful feature.
> 
> Interesting...  I was a bit confused by this as well, until I saw the
> explanation here.
> 
> I wonder if it might be more intuitive if the active pane's border
> consisted of something "pointing" in the right direction, like > < ^ v
> (or their prettier Unicode counterparts)...

No.  Is this not clear enough in the man page for now?

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