Re: Zile as git core editor?

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 26, 2013, 08:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CALUzUxpZ9=8aVEMBfFUH2hN5ZkwzKVX31J79MVzkCEGRX++LPw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <877gjp91w5.fsf@gmail.com>

Hi,

Is the GIT_EDITOR or EDITOR environment variable set? They may be overriding the core.editor setting.

-- Cheers, Ray Chuan

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> Hi List,
>
> after experiencing one crash to many, I'm back to Standard Emacs
> (instead of Emacsserver/Emacsclient), thus using 'emacs' (instead of
> emacsclient) as git core editor triggers reading my huge init file and
> is way to slow.
>
> I would like to use Zile (a small Emacs clone) instead, and although
> otherwise it works alright on my system, it does not seem to work as git
> core editor.
>
> Is it possible to use 'git config --global core.editor zile'?
>
> --
> cheers,
> Thorsten
>
>
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