[RFC] Re: short and long log messages

[John Arbash Meinel]

Wouter van Heyst wrote:

...

>> 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
> 
> 

Well, I tried this:
:!echo "foo^Mbar^Mbaz"

(^V<CR>)
And it gives me:
baz

Hit ENTER or type command to continue

So that doesn't seem quite right.
John
=:->

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