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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: commit message columns
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:44:19 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:23:04PM +0000, Jimmy Tang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:19:02PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields 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?
> 
> vim -c 'set tw=60'
> 
> where 60 is the column width. dont know how useful that is to you though

I was trying to figure out how to get that for git's invocations of vim,
but not all others.

But, come to think of it, maybe I'd rather have the textwidth just be 72
everywhere.

--b.