[RFC] Re: short and long log messages

[John Whitley]

Matthieu Moy wrote:

>> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:12:14AM -0500, John Arbash Meinel 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 ')
>
> Yes, but if you realize you've made a mistake in the summary line  
> after
> typing the first <CR>, you can't modify it easily. That's what I  
> mean by
> "possible but not comfortable".

Unless, of course, you're using zsh which has built in multi-line  
editing.
8-)

-- John