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Re: using gvim as editor on Windows

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Mar 11, 2010, 09:36 UTC
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<4B98B9B0.2010806@viscovery.net>
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<20100311090424.GV2480@ece.pdx.edu>
Tait schrieb:
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>> If you end up with a file whose name literally is '$@', that probably
>> means your "sh" did not expand it correctly.
> 
> It does expand the $@ when I add it explicitly to core.editor though. Maybe
> it's the ""s. I'll have to figure out how to compile git for Windows
> to try a patch.
> 
> Oddly enough, if I remove the : from the file path, it does work as
> expected. Adding the : back introduces the faulty behavior described
> earlier.
Which : are you talking about?
-- Hannes
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