On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:50 PM, j. van den hoff
<veedeeh...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:50:10 +0200, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
> ctrl-x ctrl-s ctrl-x c
>> (no lip from the vi users, please ;)
>>
>
> I just was going to build up some steam ;-). anyway, I believe that's
> where emcacs's gotten it's name from: "**EscapeMetaAlternateControlShif**t"
> (3 of which, I presume, are the minimum number of keys you have to press at
> the same time -- plus some letter ;-))


i've found that you can often determine whether someone is an emacs user by
looking at their keyboard. On all of mine the left ctrl, 'X', and 'S' keys
are used so often that the letters have been worn away.

...
>
>>
>> http://fossil-scm.org/index.**html/info/9801449b68<http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/9801449b68>
>>
>> We could probably shorten "commit message" to "message" or change it to
>>
>
> I think the `commit' should be kept for clarity.


Agreed.


>
>  "change summary" - suggestions are welcomed, but it ideally should fit in
>> (approx.) 72 characters (only for historical reasons).
>>
>
> well, even the punchards had 80 characters also only


True, i'm just thinking about word wrap within the $EDITOR itself. We don't
want that some auto-wrap feature wraps that line by accident, which could
truly mess up the commit message. (PS: i'm not _quite_ old enough to have
used punchcards. i've seen them but never used them.)

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----- stephan beal
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perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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