Re: GFW fails with ST3 on Windows 11

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Oct 27, 2023, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <ZTuCHVwAhAGJcQDd@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <cd248c66-fc71-4783-9195-02c8811744b8@app.fastmail.com>

On 2023-10-27 at 07:31:32, John wrote:

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> I have been using Sublime Text 3 as the editor on Git for Windows for years, on Windows 10. I recently purchased a Windows 11 machine. On that machine, when I give GFW the following command, I get the response shown:
> 
> $ git commit -a
> […]
> hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file… C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe: C:Program: command not found
> error: There was a problem with the editor ‘C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe’.
> Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

I think the "command not found" indicates that you may have specified your editor incorrectly. In Git Bash, can you try the following commands, one at a time, and then commit between each one to see if one of them works?

  git config --global core.editor '"C:/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/sublime_text.exe"'
  git config --global core.editor '"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe"'

I believe that both should work here.

My guess is that this is the situation hinted at in the FAQ[0], where, because the editor is passed to the shell (bash), you need to use double quotes to prevent it from thinking that you have a program named "C:\Program" with arguments "Files\Sublime", "Text", and "3\sublime_text.exe".

Hopefully this works; if not, please let us know, and hopefully someone on the list who uses Windows can provide some help. I'm afraid that, as a Linux user, I'm not able to provide more than a guess here.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitfaq#configure-editor

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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA