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From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web•de>
To: sebastian@coli•uni-sb.de
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git refuses to work with gvim
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:37:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910121937.24376.markus.heidelberg@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091012134312.236d250e@gzip.coli.uni-saarland.de>

sebastian@coli•uni-sb.de, 12.10.2009:
> Hi,
> a few days ago I decided to switch from vim to gvim. To make use of
> this in most cases I added :gui to my .vimrc which should make most
> applications automatically switch to use gvim if they used the vim
> command before.
> 
> But git seems to have problems with this. If I do now a "git commit
> something" not the gui is opened but the console-version of vim.

git probably calls vi and not vim. Maybe vi doesn't respect your .vimrc?

> OS: Debian Lenny

Doesn't install Debian a vim-tiny package for vi without gui and another
for vim?

Markus

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-12 11:43 git refuses to work with gvim sebastian
2009-10-12 12:43 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-10-12 14:13   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-12 14:20     ` Felipe Contreras
2009-10-12 14:25       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-12 14:36         ` Felipe Contreras
2009-10-12 18:29   ` Joshua Roys
2009-10-12 17:37 ` Markus Heidelberg [this message]

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