From: Joshua Roys <roysjosh@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: sebastian@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git refuses to work with gvim
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:29:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD37597.3010807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq8wfgg4u1.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
On 10/12/2009 08:43 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> sebastian@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE writes:
>
>> # git commit something
>> fatal: no commit message? aborting commit.
>> #
>
> The problem is that gvim returns immediately, and lets the window
> opened (try it in a terminal, "gvim foo.txt" returns immediately). Git
> expects the commit message to be written and saved when $EDITOR
> returns.
>
> A quick search for "wait" in the man pages tells me that
>
> GIT_EDITOR='gvim -f' git commit
>
> works.
>
> (BTW, this is in no way specific to Git, 99% applications calling
> $EDITOR will expect the same behavior)
>
Hello,
Also, a :help nofork leads to gui-fork and guioptions, which tells you
that you can add the following to .vimrc (not .gvimrc, see :help go-f):
set guioptions+=f
--
Joshua Roys
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 18:36 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 [this message]
2009-10-12 17:37 ` Markus Heidelberg
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