Proposal for a MacPorts'ish commit message template

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Nov 2 15:46:16 PDT 2016


> On Nov 2, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 05:33:28PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> vim does that with syntax highlighting automatically nowadays when
>>> it notices you are writing a commit message. If you need an
>>> indication on your line width, may I suggest you configure your
>>> editor appropriately?
>> 
>> Can we document in the WorkingWithGit page how to do that? I have no
>> idea.
> 
> Which editor are you using? It differs by editor.

Well, you mentioned vim. Very occasionally I use that. I don't remember seeing any particular syntax highlighting in it when editing a commit message.

Usually I use TextWrangler or TextMate.




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