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SCM Input - Display current line length for source control commit message input

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#81,029 opened on Sep 17, 2019

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Description

HI! I care a lot for 50/72 commit message rule and I depend a lot on VSCode's source control's commit message input. The problem is that I always start to write, and I wait for the warning to appear, then if I'm in title, (first line), I try to change what I intended to say to contain only 50 chars; and if I'm in description (lines after the break after the first line) I write as much as I get the warning, and then I go back to before the current word and insert a new line there (press enter). This pattern is becoming so annoying. I want to observe how much I'm writing on the current line. A screen shot of what I have in mind:

Screenshot from 2019-09-17 11-14-52

(note the small number in bottom right corner of the screen)

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Research direction
Find the commit message input component in the VS Code source and add a character counter displaying the current line length. Look for files related to 'scm' or 'commitMessage' and examine how the input is rendered. Use the existing decorator or status bar to show the count.
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typescript
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