Invert the 'R' indicator which seems rather unintuitive at the moment,

currently a '*' next to a file's name indicates it is writable. With
this diff it now means it is read-only. Also make the active buffer
indicator more visible:'.'->'>'.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/mg/buffer.c b/usr.bin/mg/buffer.c
index a5b245a745b..410d8ede0c2 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mg/buffer.c
+++ b/usr.bin/mg/buffer.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: buffer.c,v 1.111 2021/03/23 18:40:29 lum Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: buffer.c,v 1.112 2021/03/26 15:02:10 lum Exp $ */
 
 /* This file is in the public domain. */
 
@@ -368,9 +368,9 @@ makelist(void)
 		}
 
 		if (addlinef(blp, "%c%c%c %-*.*s%c%-6d %-*s",
-		    (bp == curbp) ? '.' : ' ',	/* current buffer ? */
+		    (bp == curbp) ? '>' : ' ',	/* current buffer ? */
 		    ((bp->b_flag & BFCHG) != 0) ? '*' : ' ',	/* changed ? */
-		    ((bp->b_flag & BFREADONLY) != 0) ? ' ' : '*',
+		    ((bp->b_flag & BFREADONLY) != 0) ? '*' : ' ',
 		    w - 5,		/* four chars already written */
 		    w - 5,		/* four chars already written */
 		    bp->b_bname,	/* buffer name */
diff --git a/usr.bin/mg/mg.1 b/usr.bin/mg/mg.1
index 29066df6ea7..a5a7f9aae45 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mg/mg.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mg/mg.1
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mg.1,v 1.121 2021/03/20 09:00:49 lum Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mg.1,v 1.122 2021/03/26 15:02:10 lum Exp $
 .\" This file is in the public domain.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 20 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 26 2021 $
 .Dt MG 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -692,6 +692,11 @@ directory.
 Toggle whether the line number is displayed in the modeline.
 .It list-buffers
 Display the list of available buffers.
+The first column in the output indicates which buffer is active with a '>'
+character.
+The second column indicates which buffers are modified.
+The third column indicates which buffers are read-only.
+The remaining columns are self-explanatory.
 .It load
 Prompt the user for a filename, and then execute commands
 from that file.