Re: [PATCH] git gui: visually wrap lines of commit message

From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Aug 9, 2008, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20080809224150.GA21530@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200808100014.13408.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:14:13AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> > Currently you don't see the whole message anyways if the box is too small
> > for the text. I find that quite annoying, especially since there are
> > neither keys nor a scrollbar to scroll horizontally.
> 
> In this case, I use the middle mouse button to pan around. And then I do
> see what I will get.

Ok, that's not bad. But nevertheless I think we should at least add a scrollbar.

> The width of the box was chosen wisely: It takes a bit less than 80
> columns, to leave room for quoting in emails and to avoid wrapping of git
> log output.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but on my system (wish8.5) the box width changes with the window size, and gui.commitmsgwidth appears to be ignored. Even if I close and restart git gui, the old window size is kept.

Clemens