[RFC] Re: short and long log messages

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:12:14AM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> > Matthieu Moy пишет:
> >> To make it easier for users to type everything on a command line
> >> (multi-line shell commands are possible, but rarely comfortable), I can
> >> see two solutions :
> >>
> >> * Add another option, like Arch did (-m "foo" --body "bar")
> >>
> >> * Allow \n in the message for a line break, like echo does.
> >>
> >> The second one will probably please C programmers and old unix users,
> >> but the first is more explicit to people not having this culture.
> > 
> > I think support both is will be very good. I understand explicitness of
> > first variant, but personally I'm prefer to use second.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alexander
> 
> Well, in bash, doing this works:
> 
> bzr commit -m "Summary line<CR>
> more text
> and still more
> and a little bit more
> "
> 
> Bash holds the command request open until the " is closed. (It works for
> both " and ')
> 
> However, I don't know how to spawn a bzr command like
> 	:!bzr commit -m "stuff for commit"
> in vim which would wrap lines.

^V is a great help for these cases, I also use it for python code that
uses tabs for some reason, conflicting with my expandtab settings.

Wouter van Heyst