From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:23:59 GMT
Subject: Re: commit message columns
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.