font-lock files in git-commit-mode

[haze]

It would be super cool if git-commit-mode could apply the syntax highlighting from the derived mode from the file type (if applicable) for verbose commits (git commit —verbose)

[tarsius]

Thanks for the suggestion. It's unlikely that I will work on this. IMO this too minor an issue to warrant the effort. Personally I have disabled this diff altogether and instead rely on the diff shown in the separate buffer, and I expect that many other users have done the same.

Diffs that are displayed in actual Magit buffers probably will gain syntax highlighting at some point, but that too isn't a priority. Not much has changed regarding this, since I wrote #2942 (comment).

[haze]

How can I see the diff in a separate buffer? I don't initiate a commit from emacs, so if it's obvious, I haven't ran into it yet. I just use emacs as the git editor when running commit from the command line.

[kyleam]

Call magit-diff-while-committing (bound by default to C-c C-d).