From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web•de>
To: Tait <git.git@t41t•com>
Cc: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: using gvim as editor on Windows
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 13:17:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003061317.38422.markus.heidelberg@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100306073729.GN2480@ece.pdx.edu>
Tait, 2010-03-06 08:37:
> > > I'd prefer to use gvim as an editor on Windows XP instead of vim...
> > > start "dummy" /b /wait "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim72\gvim.exe" %*
> >
> > Use the -f (stay in the foreground) flag. I haven't tried this in
> > Windows, but that's how I've used it in Linux.
> >
> > [core]
> > editor = gvim -f
>
> On Windows, gvim -f is basically a shortcut for the start invocation I
> pasted above.
Not necessarily. You can avoid using the .bat wrappers from C:\Windows,
which cause the problem, but use gvim.exe directly by setting your PATH
appropriately. It will also work for git-difftool.
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-06 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-06 7:06 using gvim as editor on Windows Tait
2010-03-06 7:22 ` Jacob Helwig
2010-03-06 7:37 ` Tait
2010-03-06 12:17 ` Markus Heidelberg [this message]
2010-03-08 18:54 ` Tait
2010-03-08 23:32 ` Markus Heidelberg
2010-03-09 2:45 ` Tait
2010-03-09 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-11 9:04 ` Tait
2010-03-11 9:36 ` Johannes Sixt
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