Comment 9 for bug 112390

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) wrote : Re: [Bug 112390] Re: kind marker in status should be optional and or check isatty()

>>>>> Glenn Morris <email address hidden> writes:

    > I tagged this "affects-emacs", hope this is OK.

It certainly is, thanks for bringing it to our attention.

    > It is explained in bug 213172 that the presence of the "@" makes
    > it hard to parse the status output. For a specific example of a
    > problem, caused by this, see Emacs bug report
    > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6724.

Right, in that case it's either:
- we add an option for [*@] to not be added,
- emacs use bzrlib.

While the later would be better, nobody is working on it, so adding an
option is certainly the way to go.