From 97b03e6764539d586860382ca519060b386325e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 18:01:24 -0600
Subject: feat: Complete modeline overhaul with custom segments and interactive
 features

Replaced mood-line with a custom, minimal modeline using only built-in
Emacs functionality to avoid native compilation issues.

**Architecture:**
- Named segment system using defvar-local for easy reordering
- Emacs 30 built-in right-alignment (mode-line-format-right-align)
- All segments marked as risky-local-variable for proper evaluation

**Features:**
- Color-coded buffer names (green=writeable, red=read-only, gold=overwrite)
- VC branch with git symbol (U+E0A0) and state-based coloring
- Position format: L:line C:col
- Help-echo tooltips on all segments
- Mouse click handlers for interactive actions
- String truncation in narrow windows (< 100 chars)
- Active-window-only display for branch and misc-info

**Interactive Actions:**
- Buffer name: mouse-1 = prev-buffer, mouse-3 = next-buffer
- Major mode: mouse-1 = describe-mode
- Git branch: mouse-1 = vc-diff, mouse-3 = vc-root-diff

**Bug Fixes:**
- Disabled async native compilation to prevent "Selecting deleted buffer" errors
- Fixed difftastic loading by changing :demand to :defer
- Abstracted buffer status colors to user-constants.el for reuse

Inspired by Prot's modeline design patterns.
---
 modules/vc-config.el | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'modules/vc-config.el')

diff --git a/modules/vc-config.el b/modules/vc-config.el
index b9b61c292..141f6e17e 100644
--- a/modules/vc-config.el
+++ b/modules/vc-config.el
@@ -125,10 +125,11 @@ interactive selection to jump to any changed line in the buffer."
 
 ;; -------------------------------- Difftastic ---------------------------------
 ;; Structural diffs for better git change visualization
+;; Requires: difft binary (installed via pacman -S difftastic)
 
 (use-package difftastic
-  :demand t
-  :after magit
+  :defer t
+  :commands (difftastic-magit-diff difftastic-magit-show)
   :bind (:map magit-blame-read-only-mode-map
               ("D" . difftastic-magit-show)
               ("S" . difftastic-magit-show))
-- 
cgit v1.2.3