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>>>>> "Stig" == Stig  <stig@hackvan.com> writes:

Stig>     http://portal.research.bell-labs.com/orgs/ssr/people/willhill/

Stig>    "For example, the figure above shows five Scroll bars. Think
Stig>    of the marks 
Stig>     inside them as vertically oriented histograms.

Stig>     (b) is edit wear, the width of the mark indicates
Stig>     the relative amount of editing that has occurred on that
Stig>     line of the document.

I like it.  :-)

If you use the RCS (or equivalent) history to generate the marks it
would be very useful, but probably slow.  Highly modified regions of
code do tend to have the most bugs in them over time.
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