Re: Adding git-commit highlight mode?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:17:08 -0800
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> 
> On 1/2/2025 10:30 AM, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
> > But Emacs seems to be the only widely popular editor that still doesn't
> > provide OOTB at least syntax highlight for git-commit format. So, does
> > anyone have opposition to adding a major mode that would be bound to
> > filenames like `COMMIT_EDITMSG` and others, and would provide the
> > aforementioned highlight?
> 
> For what it's worth, I wrote a very simple package to do this for 
> myself, since I don't use Magit. (I'm just so used to the Git command 
> line that I've never taken the time to mess with Magit.)
> 
> https://github.com/jimporter/git-command-modes/
> 
> I'm happy to assign copyright to the FSF for this or to upstream this 
> into the Emacs tree, or whatever people would like here.

I don't mind adding this, but please make sure the mode(s) for editing
log messages provide at least the features we have in change-log-mode.

Thanks.