While the commit message widget has a configurable fixed width, it nevertheless allowed to write commit messages which exceeded this limit. Though there is no visual clue, that there is scrolling going on. Now there is a horizontal scrollbar. There seems to be a bug in at least Tcl/Tk up to version 8.6.8, which does not update the horizontal scrollbar if one removes the whole content at once. Suggested-by: Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-gui.sh | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh index 5bc21b8..ad962d4 100755 --- a/git-gui.sh +++ b/git-gui.sh @@ -3363,10 +3363,16 @@ ttext $ui_comm -background white -foreground black \ -relief sunken \ -width $repo_config(gui.commitmsgwidth) -height 9 -wrap none \ -font font_diff \ + -xscrollcommand {.vpane.lower.commarea.buffer.frame.sbx set} \ -yscrollcommand {.vpane.lower.commarea.buffer.frame.sby set} +${NS}::scrollbar .vpane.lower.commarea.buffer.frame.sbx \ + -orient horizontal \ + -command [list $ui_comm xview] ${NS}::scrollbar .vpane.lower.commarea.buffer.frame.sby \ + -orient vertical \ -command [list $ui_comm yview] +pack .vpane.lower.commarea.buffer.frame.sbx -side bottom -fill x pack .vpane.lower.commarea.buffer.frame.sby -side right -fill y pack $ui_comm -side left -fill y pack .vpane.lower.commarea.buffer.header -side top -fill x -- 2.21.0.789.ga095d9d866