Re: Emacs git-mode feature request: support fill-paragraph correctly

From: Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>
Date: Jan 27, 2009, 14:07 UTC
Message-ID: <878wow7sgx.fsf@write-only.cryp.to>
In-Reply-To: <873af59fkm.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>

Hi Alexandre,

 > diff --git a/contrib/emacs/git.el b/contrib/emacs/git.el
 > index 3c37d0d..e314c44 100644
 > --- a/contrib/emacs/git.el
 > +++ b/contrib/emacs/git.el
 > @@ -1331,6 +1331,7 @@ Return the list of files that haven't been handled."
 >  					 (log-edit-diff-function . git-log-edit-diff)) buffer)
 >  	(log-edit 'git-do-commit nil 'git-log-edit-files buffer))
 >        (setq font-lock-keywords (font-lock-compile-keywords git-log-edit-font-lock-keywords))
 > +      (setq paragraph-separate (concat (regexp-quote git-log-msg-separator) "$\\|Author: \\|Date: \\|Merge: \\|Signed-off-by: \\|\f\\|[ 	]*$"))
 >        (setq buffer-file-coding-system coding-system)
 >        (re-search-forward (regexp-quote (concat git-log-msg-separator "\n")) nil t))))

that patch has the desired effect (tested with GNU Emacs 22.3.1 and GIT 1.6.1). Thank you very much.

Now, I'd be hugely in favor of applying that change to the repository so that future versions of GIT have it.

Take care, Peter