From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git gui: visually wrap lines of commit message
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:41:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080809224150.GA21530@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808100014.13408.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:14:13AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > 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.
Ok, that's not bad. But nevertheless I think we should at least add a
scrollbar.
> 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.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but on my system (wish8.5) the box width
changes with the window size, and gui.commitmsgwidth appears to be ignored.
Even if I close and restart git gui, the old window size is kept.
Clemens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-09 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-09 16:05 [PATCH] git gui: visually wrap lines of commit message Clemens Buchacher
2008-08-09 21:44 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-09 22:06 ` Clemens Buchacher
2008-08-09 22:14 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-09 22:41 ` Clemens Buchacher [this message]
2008-08-10 2:25 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-10 7:56 ` Lars Noschinski
2008-08-10 7:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-10 9:25 ` Clemens Buchacher
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