Useful Emacs customimizationsEdit

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Keeping commit messages under length limits

Posted to the Git mailing list by Adeodato Simó:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
            '("/\\.git/\\(COMMIT\\|TAG\\)_EDITMSG\\'" .
              vcs-message-mode))

(define-derived-mode vcs-message-mode text-mode "VCS-message"
 "Major mode for editing commit and tag messages."
 (auto-fill-mode 1)
 (set (make-local-variable 'tab-stop-list)
      (number-sequence 4 100 4))
 (setq indent-tabs-mode nil
       fill-column 72
       truncate-lines t))