Re: git refuses to work with gvim

[Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.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