Re: Creating changelog with magit

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Florian Beck <fb@miszellen.de> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I get a meager
>>
>> ,-------------------
>> | 
>> | * org.el: 
>> | 
>> | # <<comment text>>
>> | 
>> `-------------------
>
> You get this when you are on the file that has changed. Press TAB
> (magit-toggle-section) and you see a diff. Move to the chunk you want to
> comment on and press "C": this should insert the defun/defvar/etc in the
> commit buffer.
>
> To automate this I have
>
>   (defun fb/magit-commit-add-log ()
>     (interactive)
>     (let* ((ol (car (overlays-at (point))))
>            (beg (overlay-start ol))
>            (end (overlay-end ol))
>            commit-buffer)
>       (save-excursion
>         (goto-char beg)
>         (while (re-search-forward "^[+-]" end t)
>           (save-window-excursion
>             (magit-commit-add-log)
>             (setq commit-buffer (current-buffer)))))
>       (display-buffer commit-buffer)))
>
> ... but I don't really use this, because it is very slow and, usually,
> you want to arrange things differently.


Thanks, I hoped there is more than just this minimal skeleton, and there
is, like so often with emacs/org-mode.

I will try TAB/C and your function next time I commit. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten