Re: using gvim as editor on Windows

From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Mar 6, 2010, 12:17 UTC
Message-ID: <201003061317.38422.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100306073729.GN2480@ece.pdx.edu>

Tait, 2010-03-06 08:37:

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> > > 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.

Not necessarily. You can avoid using the .bat wrappers from C:\Windows, which cause the problem, but use gvim.exe directly by setting your PATH appropriately. It will also work for git-difftool.

Markus