On Jun 2, 6:37 pm, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a mode out there for COMMIT_EDITMSG and the Git commit edit > message buffer in general? > > I've seen some bindings for it bind it to diff-mode, just for the > comment highlighting presumably. > > It would be really neat to have a mode that: > > * Starts highlighting the first line yellow/red if it goes past > 50/60 characters (configurable). > > * Whines in a similar manner if the second line isn't empty. > > * turns on auto-fill-mode for any text in the rest of the message as > long as it isn't indented.
rafl just did a mode for COMMIT_EDITMSG that has most of these: http://github.com/rafl/git-commit-mode/blob/master/git-commit-mode.el It doesn't play nice with *magit-commit* yet.
