Mh... 1. err, firing up an editor, type the message, save and quit is not quicker... 2. on my keyboard they are on a single key (I have inverted number/symbol

Mh... 1. err, firing up an editor, type the message, save and quit is not quicker... 2. on my keyboard they are on a single key (I have inverted number/symbol row), my environment (Emacs/EXWM for some things my QMK firmware) automatically pair relevant symbols)... 5. various shells have history, easy navigation etc, so well... Not that hard... 6. I hardly imaging putting special chars in a commit message... To me the main reasons might be: commit messages should often have a short line title THAN a more broad prose, witch is a good reason to use an editor. If your editor is not nano but something more featuresful you might like templates and so on. The rest seems to be a bit... Considerations by someone who not use much a shell, so it's not comfortable with it.