Re: [PATCH 1/1] Tell vim the textwidth is 75.

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:24:35AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Cogito shows '[NMD] filename' in place of @FILELIST@.
> 
> Sounds sensible.  Does it parse it to limit the files to be
> committed?

Yes.

> > This brings me to another subject, M and N are pretty hard to
> > distinguish visually without close inspection of the output. What about
> > switching to use A instead of N everywhere?
> 
> Although I admit that is minor, I've had the same problem, and
> this sounds like a good idea.
> 
> However, I'd like to see what the extent of damage would be even
> if everybody agrees this is a good change.  Any one of core
> barebone Porcelain, Linus git-tools, gitk, gitweb, Cogito, and
> StGIT would have a veto over this kind of change, or at least we
> should wait until everybody catches up.

I don't think the situation is so bad. At least in Cogito, there is only
one use of 'N' (and cg-status, but that goes directly to the user), and
it's likely useless and things would work even with that changing to 'A'
(nevertheless, I just updated Cogito to accept 'A' at that place as
well).

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