From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:14:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git gui: visually wrap lines of commit message
Message-ID: <200808100014.13408.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <20080809220637.GA20963@localhost>

On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:44:33PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> > > Visually wrap lines in the commit message text box. That way we can
> > > avoid a horizontal scroll bar (which was not available anyways).
> > >
> > > Note: This does _not_ break lines in the actual commit message.
> >
> > Please don't do that. I want to get what I see.
>
> 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.

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.

-- Hannes