Commit Messages: Show character count

[Leleat]

I have 2 suggestions for improving the committing experience:

1. Show the character count of the current line.

Some projects may have a limit (or at least a suggestion) on the amount of characters a line in a commit should have at max. Showing the character count of the current line would help with this. Here is a screenshot of lazygit doing this (top-right of the commit message field):

2. [Edit] NVM, I just had a conflicting editor shortcut

I couldn't figure out if you could commit with only the keyboard. I tried Ctrl + Enter and Alt + Enter. If there is no way to do that, I suggest to implement that. That seems reasonable since you are already on your keyboard when you are typing your commit message. So needing to reach for your mouse is kinda disruptive. For reference, lazygit uses alt + Enter (see screenshot above).

[AlexDaniel]

#26945

[AlexDaniel]

There's a good tip here: #27078 (comment)
Basically, you can use zed -w as your GIT_EDITOR. Then running git commit in the command line will open a proper buffer. It works!