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Re: git refuses to work with gvim

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Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date
Oct 12, 2009, 17:37 UTC
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<200910121937.24376.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
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<20091012134312.236d250e@gzip.coli.uni-saarland.de>
sebastian@coli.uni-sb.de, 12.10.2009:
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> Hi,
> a few days ago I decided to switch from vim to gvim. To make use of
> this in most cases I added :gui to my .vimrc which should make most
> applications automatically switch to use gvim if they used the vim
> command before.
> 
> But git seems to have problems with this. If I do now a "git commit
> something" not the gui is opened but the console-version of vim.
git probably calls vi and not vim. Maybe vi doesn't respect your .vimrc?
> OS: Debian Lenny

Doesn't install Debian a vim-tiny package for vi without gui and another for vim?

Markus
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  1. sebastian@coli.uni-sb.deOct 12, 2009
  2. Matthieu MoyOct 12, 2009
  3. Shawn O. PearceOct 12, 2009
  4. Felipe ContrerasOct 12, 2009
  5. Shawn O. PearceOct 12, 2009
  6. Felipe ContrerasOct 12, 2009
  7. Joshua RoysOct 12, 2009
  8. Markus HeidelbergOct 12, 2009

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