Re: commit message columns

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.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.