From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:13:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git refuses to work with gvim
Message-ID: <20091012141334.GE9261@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8wfgg4u1.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> The problem is that gvim returns immediately
...
> (BTW, this is in no way specific to Git, 99% applications calling
> $EDITOR will expect the same behavior)

The sad part is, every gvim user blames Git.

Every single one of my coworkers who uses Linux had gvim as their
default $EDITOR and found git commit working sometimes, and not
working others.  Since git was new to them, they blamed git, not
their $EDITOR.  They also felt insulted when I told them their
$EDITOR was busted and should be replaced.

Someone needs to whack gvim upside the head and fix that program
to behave correctly.

-- 
Shawn.