Re: How to get rid of the "Summary: " inserted by vc log-edit.el?

[Richard Copley]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 at 08:56, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:

> Platform: emacs 26
>
> Is there a simple way to get rid of the "Summary: " tag inserted into
> the comment buffer when making a commit with 'C-x v v'?
>
> The first, and only, thing I do with the Summary: tag is to delete
> it. And it would be nice not to have to.
>
> But it doesn't look like this tag is configurable...?  And it wasn't all
> that easy to find where it is set either.
>
> The place I've found is set, are:
>  When the author field is set
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/vc/log-edit.el#n834
>  When the Amend header is toggled
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/vc/log-edit.el#n1179
>  Possibly as a side effect of extracting headers from the commit
> message...?
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/vc/log-edit.el#n1124
>
> Or is it perhaps set in a completely different place?
>

Hi,
Customize the variable "log-edit-hook" and remove
"log-edit-insert-message-template" from the list of functions there. There
are three functions on the list by default. They can all be removed if you
want, without causing any problems.