Hi John, > Does anybody else here manage to line-wrap their commit messages at > *precisely* 72-characters without the aide of hyphenation or justification? > ;-) Or is it just me?
I find myself sometimes breaking a line after a comma or full stop, without starting a new paragraph, if the line is still a good length. Rather than vim's `gwap', or fmt(1), say. It's convenient for later edits being isolated in their ripple effect. I think Bell Labs book authors often did this when using ed(1) as the edits were line based and the edit often wanted to work on a clause. Does anyone here know a fmt(1)-er that tries to do this? fmt(1) alternatives I know are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(command) http://search.cpan.org/~neilb/Text-Autoformat-1.74/lib/Text/Autoformat.pm The latter can easily be run from the command line, not just used as a module in Perl. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy