Peter Simons <simons@xxxxxxx> writes: [...] > The buffer is in "log-edit" mode. Ah, OK. That makes sense. > > In that case you could stick this in your .emacs if you wanted to > > use message-mode: > > > > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("COMMIT_EDITMSG" . message-mode) auto-mode-alist)) > > Unfortunately, it's not that easy. True. I don't use git-mode (well, not much). I use git commit from the command line, which runs emacsclient as its editor. > I'm not an Emacs expert, but I'd assume that switching into a > different mode would change the meaning of C-c C-c. Yep. Quite likely other things, too. OK, something like this: (add-hook 'log-edit-mode-hook (lambda () (let ((regexp "--text follows this line--$\\|[ ]*$\\|-- $\\|---+$\\|^\f$\\|.*wrote:$\\|\\(\\([ ]*[-_.[:word:]]+>+\\|[ ]*[]>|}+]\\)+\\)[ ]*$\\|<#!*/?\\(multipart\\|part\\|external\\|mml\\|secure\\)")) (setq paragraph-start regexp paragraph-separate regexp))) I copied the regexp from the value in message-mode. (In a junk buffer use M-x message-mode, then C-h v paragraph-start and copy & paste.) I imagine large parts of the regexp aren't relevant for your purposes so you could remove them if you wanted. You might also define a function rather than using lambda---that would make it a bit easier to test. -- 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