Re: commit message columns

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 22, 2007, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20070122212359.GC29975@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070122211902.GC6614@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> Uh, I feel like I must be missing something simple here--when editing
> commit messages, you'd like the editor (vim in my case) to wrap text
> sooner than it normally would, since commit messages are displayed
> indented.  What's the easiest way to ensure this always happens?

<shameless-plug> Use git-gui. The message buffer window doesn't linewrap nor does it scroll, so you learn to linewrap on your own. :-) </shameless-plug>

When I'm not in git-gui I use vile and have a macro in it to pass the current paragraph of text through:

  fmt --crown-margin --width=70 --uniform-spacing

works reasonably well.

-- 
Shawn.