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From: Joshua Roys <roysjosh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git refuses to work with gvim
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:29:43 -0400
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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