On 04/09/19 07:42AM, Birger Skogeng Pedersen wrote: > Hi Pratyush, > > > Just wanted to chime in on this one: > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 8:58 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On second thought, wouldn't it make more sense to expand the commit > > message buffer instead? The point of resizing that pane is to see more > > of the commit message. So it makes more sense to make the commit message > > buffer take up all the vertical space, rather than making the scrollbar > > move. > > I also think it makes sense to expand the commit message buffer. And Yes, it was actually a bug. Bert fixed it in his re-roll. > how about automatic word wrapping? Should the user really have to care > about the 72 character limit, while typing the commit message? I'm not > sure what solution would be best. Yes, that would be a neat feature. Tcl/Tk's text boxes have a "word wrap" feature [0], but I'm not sure if that's a soft-wrap or a hard-wrap. We can try experimenting with those to see how well it works. It would also be a good idea to have an option to disable the word wrap. Maybe do that by setting the "Commit message text width" to 0. [0] https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/text.htm#M16 -- Regards, Pratyush Yadav
