From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: git refuses to work with gvim Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:20:19 +0300 Message-ID: <94a0d4530910120720pccaa920n7ab407494473ac7b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091012134312.236d250e@gzip.coli.uni-saarland.de> <20091012141334.GE9261@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Matthieu Moy , sebastian@coli.uni-sb.de, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 12 16:24:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MxLpZ-0003mq-0Z for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:24:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932255AbZJLOWJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:22:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932251AbZJLOWI (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:22:08 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:64769 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932254AbZJLOWH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:22:07 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so461370fgg.1 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:20:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wLQi3CF8li2/H3u/J4E0OkAZ0au4DsbU72KZ03eZFqg=; b=HpojJqo65e6jI5DbREiciam1a1bY12SjwBWYq205rt7NyeduD9DI80EhuW/MYeM2xK AzqrE+J7ui4azpky5qquOB2xSdjY791hu+99x5bwCppes/fWscVfRG728+MbwF5duy4J Mb3a36PGXdWOvo5If6weqGNauNKhI04cDyLw4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EDUVP2rCSRnXsRP1MLjMAycVNPhZ2CfmFDtSClY42SuP/Lc710MDxGdfhCog0EPOKs OJhb1zVZPTugtYsh0kDClayBAz4CZTM9PpkD4zJstZ9g6BE7OU4zztui+V7XIChQswgg MxaN8L2YCz6NjU8f2f6MLo6oN6ovgsJUIwKag= Received: by 10.86.254.23 with SMTP id b23mr994928fgi.21.1255357219899; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:20:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091012141334.GE9261@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Shawn O. Pearce = wrote: > Matthieu Moy wrote: >> The problem is that gvim returns immediately > ... >> (BTW, this is in no way specific to Git, 99% applications calling >> $EDITOR will expect the same behavior) > > The sad part is, every gvim user blames Git. > > Every single one of my coworkers who uses Linux had gvim as their > default $EDITOR and found git commit working sometimes, and not > working others. =C2=A0Since git was new to them, they blamed git, not > their $EDITOR. =C2=A0They also felt insulted when I told them their > $EDITOR was busted and should be replaced. > > Someone needs to whack gvim upside the head and fix that program > to behave correctly. Huh? What is wrong about 'gvim --nofork'? --=20 =46elipe Contreras