Yeah, I only asked for a user defined comment character since I thought it
too bold to request it be changed outright. '#' is really too useful to me
to be relegated to comments :(
So many other useless characters to choose from?


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:50 PM, j. van den hoff <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:50:10 +0200, Stephan Beal <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>> ctrl-x ctrl-s ctrl-x c
>>> (no lip from the vi users, please ;)
>>>
>>
>> I just was going to build up some steam ;-). anyway, I believe that's
>> where emcacs's gotten it's name from: "**EscapeMetaAlternateControlShif**t"
>> (3 of which, I presume, are the minimum number of keys you have to press at
>> the same time -- plus some letter ;-))
>>
>
> i've found that you can often determine whether someone is an emacs user
> by looking at their keyboard. On all of mine the left ctrl, 'X', and 'S'
> keys are used so often that the letters have been worn away.
>
> ...
>>
>>>
>>> http://fossil-scm.org/index.**html/info/9801449b68<http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/9801449b68>
>>>
>>> We could probably shorten "commit message" to "message" or change it to
>>>
>>
>> I think the `commit' should be kept for clarity.
>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>>
>>  "change summary" - suggestions are welcomed, but it ideally should fit in
>>> (approx.) 72 characters (only for historical reasons).
>>>
>>
>> well, even the punchards had 80 characters also only
>
>
> True, i'm just thinking about word wrap within the $EDITOR itself. We
> don't want that some auto-wrap feature wraps that line by accident, which
> could truly mess up the commit message. (PS: i'm not _quite_ old enough to
> have used punchcards. i've seen them but never used them.)
>
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