# Capital letters do not work when using vi as git editor 3 messages from 2020-06-25 to 2020-06-25. Participants: Daniel Dyk, Philip Oakley. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/53754 ## Daniel Dyk, 2020-06-25 10:21 Subject: Capital letters do not work when using vi as git editor Message-ID: <000232C3.5EF496D0@mail.ifta.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/000232C3.5EF496D0%40mail.ifta.com ``` Hi git-devs, I installed git 2.27.0 on a fresh Windows 10 system, there where no old installations of mingw or git. Unfortunatly I have encountered a bug with vim when doing 'git rebase -i' or 'git commit': I am not able to type capital letters, so commands for selecting rows (V), pasting above (P) etc are not working. I am also not able to type 'ABCDE' in insertion mode. Small letters and capital umlauts (ÄÖÜ) work. If I open the vi without git, I can type the capital letters. If I use nano as editor, I can type capital letters as well. Downgrading to git 2.24.1.2 solved the problem for now (I double checked and reinstalled 2.27.0 again => same issue). Regards Daniel Dyk ___________________________________________________________________ Daniel Dyk Software Developer IfTA Ingenieurbuero fuer Thermoakustik GmbH Junkersstrasse 8 D-82178 Puchheim Germany Tel. +49-89-8392719-42 Fax +49-89-8392719-11 http://www.ifta.com Geschaeftsfuehrer: Dr.-Ing. 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Jakob Hermann Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 114 602 Umsatzsteuer-ID: DE 812 240 350 IfTA's Datenschutzerklärung finden Sie hier: https://www.ifta.com/de/unternehmen/datenschutzerklärung For IfTA's privacy policy please go to: https://www.ifta.com/en/company/privacy-policy ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ``` ## Philip Oakley, 2020-06-25 13:39 Subject: Re: Capital letters do not work when using vi as git editor Message-ID: <1eccf3a5-cce2-2109-5e04-ed9f43105a57@iee.email> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1eccf3a5-cce2-2109-5e04-ed9f43105a57%40iee.email In-Reply-To: <000232C3.5EF496D0@mail.ifta.com> ``` On 25/06/2020 11:21, Daniel Dyk wrote: > Hi git-devs, > > > I installed git 2.27.0 on a fresh Windows 10 system, there where no old installations of mingw or git. Unfortunatly I have encountered a bug with vim when doing 'git rebase -i' or 'git commit': > > I am not able to type capital letters, so commands for selecting rows (V), pasting above (P) etc are not working. I am also not able to type 'ABCDE' in insertion mode. Small letters and capital umlauts (ÄÖÜ) work. If I open the vi without git, I can type the capital letters. If I use nano as editor, I can type capital letters as well. > > Downgrading to git 2.24.1.2 solved the problem for now (I double checked and reinstalled 2.27.0 again => same issue). > If I remember correctly this occurred because of changes to the terminal support used. It's been reported on the Git-for-Windows Issues [1] list and a fresh snapshot [2] created that resolves the problem . Philip [1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2689 [2] https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html ``` ## Daniel Dyk, 2020-06-25 13:46 Subject: Re-2: Capital letters do not work when using vi as git editor Message-ID: <000232E3.5EF4C6CC@mail.ifta.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/000232E3.5EF4C6CC%40mail.ifta.com In-Reply-To: <1eccf3a5-cce2-2109-5e04-ed9f43105a57@iee.email> ``` Installing the latest snapshot resolved it, thanks. Daniel -------- Original Message -------- Betreff: Re: Capital letters do not work when using vi as git editor (25. Juni 2020, 15:39) Von: Philip Oakley An: Daniel Dyk git@vger.kernel.org > On 25/06/2020 11:21, Daniel Dyk wrote: > > Hi git-devs, > > > > > > I installed git 2.27.0 on a fresh Windows 10 system, there where no old > > installations of mingw or git. Unfortunatly I have encountered a bug with > > vim when doing 'git rebase -i' or 'git commit': > > > > I am not able to type capital letters, so commands for selecting rows (< > > Shift>V), pasting above (P) etc are not working. I am also not able > > to type 'ABCDE' in insertion mode. Small letters and capital umlauts (ÄÖÜ) > > work. If I open the vi without git, I can type the capital letters. If I > > use nano as editor, I can type capital letters as well. > > > > Downgrading to git 2.24.1.2 solved the problem for now (I double checked > > and reinstalled 2.27.0 again => same issue). > > > If I remember correctly this occurred because of changes to the terminal > support used. It's been reported on the Git-for-Windows Issues [1] list > and a fresh snapshot [2] created that resolves the problem . > > Philip > > [1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2689 > [2] https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html To: philipoakley@iee.email git@vger.kernel.org ```