Re: git refuses to work with gvim
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> The problem is that gvim returns immediately
> ...
>> (BTW, this is in no way specific to Git, 99% applications calling
>> $EDITOR will expect the same behavior)
>
> The sad part is, every gvim user blames Git.
>
> Every single one of my coworkers who uses Linux had gvim as their
> default $EDITOR and found git commit working sometimes, and not
> working others. Since git was new to them, they blamed git, not
> their $EDITOR. They also felt insulted when I told them their
> $EDITOR was busted and should be replaced.
>
> Someone needs to whack gvim upside the head and fix that program
> to behave correctly.
Huh? What is wrong about 'gvim --nofork'?
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Felipe Contreras
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>