From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:37:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git refuses to work with gvim
Message-ID: <200910121937.24376.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20091012134312.236d250e@gzip.coli.uni-saarland.de>

sebastian@coli.uni-sb.de, 12.10.2009:
> 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