Make vim stop splitting the Git commit messages

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Vim has this awful annoying habit of splitting my commit messages and automatically line-breaking them, rendering the second line with a red background for some reason.

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How can I make vim stop doing this?

Best Answer

The filetype plugin enforces the preferred Git commit message style: Short title, and hard line breaks. If you don't agree with that style, undo the settings by putting the following into ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/gitcommit.vim:

setlocal wrap formatoptions<

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set formatoptions-=tc

See :help fo-table for more info.

Wim's suggestion of set textwidth=0 should have the same effect, though a lot of annoying filetype plugins will undo that for you. (Ugh.)

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I'm never satisfied with the "set all these things just in case" answers. I insist on knowing which of those things were set wrong and how they got set. Here is a command that will show you the values of all the relevant settings mentioned here, as well as where they were last set. If no Last set from line follows, it is a default value. No point in re-setting correct default values.

:verbose set autoindent? smartindent? cindent? cinkeys? indentexpr?

noautoindent
nosmartindent
  cindent
        Last set from ~/.vim/vimrc
  cinkeys=0{,0},0),:,!^F,o,O,e
        Last set from ~/.vim/vimrc
  indentexpr=
Press ENTER or type command to continue

See: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#:set-verbose

All I had to do to get that working was remove set smartindent from a plugin and add to my ~/.vim/vimrc:

set cindent cinkeys-=0#
set expandtab shiftwidth=4 tabstop=4 softtabstop=4

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