René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Set fill column and/or turn on auto fill mode","articleBody":"First, thanks for a great mode! I really like it.\n\nI noticed that this mode highlights any portion of the first line that exceeds the recommended 50-character limit. A 72-character limit seems to be a common convention for the rest of the commit message [1]. Do you think it would be a good idea to codify this convention too?\n\n`auto-fill-mode` makes it very easy to arrange paragraphs with line breaks near a certain column. Just press press `M-q` and the current paragraph will be reflowed. My first proposal is to set the `fill-column` variable to 72 when `git-commit-mode` is activated. This could be as simple as calling `(setq fill-column 72)`, but since I'm pretty new at elisp I don't know the preferred way to set this on mode entry (preferably only in the commit message buffer).\n\nMy other proposal is to turn on `auto-fill-mode` automatically. In my experience the great majority of commit message lines are ordinary text, which should adhere to the 72-character rule. I think it makes sense to have it activated by default. What do you think?\n\nReferences:\n[1] http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/raek","@type":"Person","name":"raek"},"datePublished":"2012-05-15T22:36:29.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/6/git-commit-mode/issues/6"}