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Re: $EDITOR idea

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2002-10-03 18:28:08 CEST

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> "Craig Peterein" <craig@peterein.org> writes:
>
> > On IRC, we discussed an idea about the $EDITOR text.
> >
> > The current $EDITOR behaviour adds an "SVN: " string to the front of
> > 'svn status' output. To make it easier to create a log message, it
> > would be nice to also chop off the file after a special marker.
> > Something like this:
>
> -0.5. The presence of a repeating line-begin string like SVN: is
> really easy for the eye to notice as interesting. I don't think a
> single occurrence of a magic string is as eye-catching.

I'm definitely against putting the diffs into the default log message.

The complaint that users are making is that it's annoying to manually
remove every "SVN:" prefix from each 'M foo.c' line that they want to
annotate. It's much easier to delete a *single* line and then edit
away.

I don't think "eye-catching" is something that needs worrying about.
Think about every time you compose an email in Emacs: "--text follows
this line--" appears, and you type below it. You don't have trouble
noticing it. It's no big deal.

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