From: Stefan Beller Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:51:46 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Indicate that Git waits for user input via editor Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <274B4850-2EB7-4BFA-A42C-25A573254969@gmail.com> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Lars Schneider wrote: > Hi, > > Git gathers user input via text editor in certain commands (e.g. "git commit"). > If you configure a text based editor, such as vi, then this works great as the > editor is opened in your terminal window in the foreground and in focus. > > However, if you configure an editor that runs outside your terminal window then > you might run into the following problem: > Git opens the editor but the editor is the background or on another screen and > consequently you don't see the editor. You only see the Git command line > interface which appears to hang. > > I wonder if would make sense to print "Opening editor for user input..." or > something to the screen to make the user aware of the action. Does this sound > sensible to you? Am I missing an existing solution to this problem? Can this be put in a wrapper that opens the text editor? The wrapper would print these lines and then open the text editor; depending on the operating system, there might even be a command to focus on that editor window. Regarding Git, maybe improve the documentation for how to set the editor variable? > > Thanks, > Lars