Re: using gvim as editor on Windows

[Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 23:06, Tait <git.git@t41t.com> wrote:
>
> I'd prefer to use gvim as an editor on Windows XP instead of vim. (I also
> prefer it as a difftool, but that's a separate issue.) Gvim releases
> the terminal when it launches, which git doesn't like too much. So I
> create gvimf.cmd in my path and use it for core.editor. Gvimf.cmd is
> quite simple; it calls:
>        start "dummy" /b /wait "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim72\gvim.exe" %*
>
> In .gitconfig:
> [core]
>        editor = gvimf.cmd
>
> This works well enough for git commit. However, git rebase -i is not
> happy. It errors:
>        C:\path to\repo> git rebase -i HEAD~10
>        The system cannot find the file dummy.
>        Could not execute editor
>
> Okay, I can fix that. I change core.editor to "cmd \\/c gvimf.cmd". (This
> is the same pattern I use for gvim as a difftool.) Now my .gitconfig has:
> [core]
>        editor = cmd \\\\/c gvimf.cmd
>
> Git rebase is happy, but git commit is not. It errors:
>        C:\path to\repo> git commit
>        'OMMIT_EDITMSG' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>        operable program or batch file.
>        error: There was a problem with the editor 'cmd \\/c gvimf.cmd'.
>        Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
>
> In the selfish hope to avoid work, has anyone else already encountered
> and solved how to use gvim as an editor?
>
> Tait
>

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