Re: [PATCH] * vc-git.el (vc-git-log-edit-mode): Font lock long summary lines.

[Philip Kaludercic]

Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com> writes:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> (...)  I'd like to install this patch to highlight long summary lines
>> when composing git commit messages.  Comments welcome.
>
> Isn't this feature already implemented through whitespace-mode with
> custom value for whitespace-line-column?

I don't believe the whitespace mode distinguishes between warnings at 50
characters and "errors" at 68 characters.