From: Tait <git.git@t41t.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:37:29 GMT
Subject: Re: using gvim as editor on Windows
Message-ID: <20100306073729.GN2480@ece.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8c9a061003052322v446acddbm5792038af450d0b9@mail.gmail.com>

> > I'd prefer to use gvim as an editor on Windows XP instead of vim...
> >     start "dummy" /b /wait "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim72\gvim.exe" %*
>
> Use the -f (stay in the foreground) flag.  I haven't tried this in
> Windows, but that's how I've used it in Linux.
>
> [core]
>     editor = gvim -f

On Windows, gvim -f is basically a shortcut for the start invocation I
pasted above. It works well enough for commit, but not for rebase (or
alternately, for rebase -- so long as it doesn't open an editor for git
commit -- but not commit).

Tait