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Re: commit message columns

From
MLMatthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date
Jan 22, 2007, 22:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20070122221927.GA3746@moooo.ath.cx>
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?
You could add this to your .vimrc:
> autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG setlocal tw=60 ft=human
Has anyone a good filetype for this?
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  1. J. Bruce FieldsJan 22, 2007
  2. Jimmy TangJan 22, 2007
  3. J. Bruce FieldsJan 22, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceJan 22, 2007
  5. Matthias LederhoferJan 22, 2007
  6. Jeff KingJan 23, 2007

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