I'm of the opinion that the orthodox 50-character limit on git commit messages is absolutely ridiculous. (Primarily because I think using an 80-character wide Terminal in 2015 is equally ridiculous.) :P
I've fixed a few other glaring issues with vim
's default settings for git commit-messages in my vimrc; but vim
still hilights the first line if it's longer than 50 characters:
How can I change the line-length at which this occurs?
Best Answer
This is caused by the following line from
$VIMRUNTIME/syntax/gitcommit.vim
:You could just copy that syntax script to
~/.vim/syntax/
and modify it, but that drags you into maintaining your clone. I prefer to selectively change that single syntax definition in~/.vim/after/syntax/gitcommit.vim
:Alternatively / in addition, you could open an issue at the project and ask for a configurable threshold; the hard-coded limit certainly isn't nice.