Sorry for being absent a long time. I hope you have managed to sort out the git-blame fixes anyway. Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >Without this patch, the author column in git-blame-mode spills >over in some rows: > > 822a7d <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:const char git_usage_ > f2dd8c <jon.seymour@xxxxxxxxx>: "git [--version] [--exec- > a1bea2 <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: " [-p|--paginat > a1bea2 <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: " [--git-dir=<p > 293b07 <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: " [-c name=valu > 62b469 <stepan.nemec@xxxxxxxxx>: " <comm > 822a7d <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >As a result, code meant to line up does not line up correctly and the >colored code area has a jagged left edge. > >Specify a maximum width for the autohr email address in the default >blame prefix (i.e., use %20.20A instead of %20A) to fix it. > > 822a7d <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.c:const char git_usage_strin > f2dd8c <jon.seymour@xxxxxxxxx>: "git [--version] [--exec- > >The (format) function used to implement format-spec has supported >precision specifiers like ".20" in emacs since 2002-12-09, so this >should be safe. > >Helped-by: Kevin Ryde <user42@xxxxxxxxxx> >Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> >--- >In February of 2011, I wrote: > >> - email addresses are often longer than 20 characters. Does >> format-spec provide a way to truncate to a certain length, >> so the prefixes can line up? > >Better late than never, I guess. Sensible? > > contrib/emacs/git-blame.el | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >diff --git a/contrib/emacs/git-blame.el b/contrib/emacs/git-blame.el >index d351cfb6..137d5ba9 100644 >--- a/contrib/emacs/git-blame.el >+++ b/contrib/emacs/git-blame.el >@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ > :group 'git-blame) > > (defcustom git-blame-prefix-format >- "%h %20A:" >+ "%h %20.20A:" > "The format of the prefix added to each line in `git-blame' > mode. The format is passed to `format-spec' with the following format keys: -- David Kågedal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html