From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0431F4B7 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731199AbfIEGWD (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Sep 2019 02:22:03 -0400 Received: from bsmtp.bon.at ([213.33.87.14]:40237 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731084AbfIEGWD (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Sep 2019 02:22:03 -0400 Received: from dx.site (unknown [93.83.142.38]) by bsmtp.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 46P9Zc5wnjz5tl9; Thu, 5 Sep 2019 08:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dx.site (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D09102; Thu, 5 Sep 2019 08:21:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-gui: warn if the commit message contains lines longer than the set limit To: Bert Wesarg Cc: Eric Sunshine , Git List , Pratyush Yadav , Birger Skogeng Pedersen References: <7da71d89f9fa987eca2e25974e4cec382c146e44.1567627609.git.bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> From: Johannes Sixt Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 08:21:59 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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