On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:10 PM Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The commit message widget does not wrap the next and has a configurable s/next/text/ > fixed width to avoid creating too wide commit messages. Though this was > only enforced in the GUI. Now we also check the commit message at commit > time for long lines and ask the author for confirmation if it exceeds the > configured line length. Hmm, more confirmation dialogs tend to mean more annoyance for users, especially considering that the line length limit is a project-specific _policy_ (so this has the potential to annoy a lot of people), and also because there often are legitimate reasons for exceeding the limit (such as pasting in URLs). As an alternative to a confirmation dialog, how about instead adding a _warning_ message (perhaps with red text) on the window itself alongside to the commit message field (below or above it or something)? Is that something that could be triggered by a text widget callback? > Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/lib/commit.tcl b/lib/commit.tcl > @@ -215,6 +215,16 @@ A good commit message has the following format: > + if {[tcl::mathfunc::max {*}[lmap x [split $msg "\n"] {string length $x}]] >= $repo_config(gui.commitmsgwidth) \ Does this take TABs into account?