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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>,
	Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-gui: warn if the commit message contains lines longer than the set limit
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 08:21:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef44ce71-2ed7-0f17-faf2-06b3c7d193b9@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKPyHN3=hh7DCoyEKB9DOf=t=v=Y1bX1xVx9r6Lxy=WQb9JC-A@mail.gmail.com>

Am 04.09.19 um 22:43 schrieb Bert Wesarg:
> these people did not saw the entered text anyway. they would have
> needed to change the option (default to 75 characters) to see what
> they have typed. which could have been garbage to begin with.

Huh? When I type overly long line, all text scrolls out of view on the
left side. So I definitely _can_ see the long text.

> How about a horizontal scrollbar? This indicates pretty conveniently
> and in a standard visual way, that there is more text to the side ;-)

The scrollbar is an option, of course, but I dislike somewhat that it
takes away screen space if it is permanently visible.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-05  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-04 20:10 [PATCH 1/2] git-gui: warn if the commit message contains lines longer than the set limit Bert Wesarg
2019-09-04 20:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-gui: add horizontal scrollbar to commit buffer Bert Wesarg
2019-09-04 20:31   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-09-04 20:46     ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-10 20:28   ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-12 19:10     ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-04 20:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-gui: warn if the commit message contains lines longer than the set limit Eric Sunshine
2019-09-04 20:43   ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-04 22:48     ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-05  6:48       ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-05 17:46         ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-06 14:08           ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-06 20:07             ` Philip Oakley
2019-09-10  8:04               ` David Aguilar
2019-09-10 19:42                 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-05  6:21     ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2019-09-05 17:43       ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-10 16:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-09-12 19:26   ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-10 20:34 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-12 19:13   ` Bert Wesarg

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