Re: GFW fails with ST3 on Windows 11

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>]

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On 2023-10-27 at 09:59:47, John wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> Thanks very much for your suggestions. Unfortunately, after each command, I continue to get the same error messages noted in my original email.
> 
> Any Windows 11 experts out there--please help.
> 
> John
> 
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2023, at 16:25, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > On 2023-10-27 at 07:31:32, John wrote:
> >> I have been using Sublime Text 3 as the editor on Git for Windows for years, on Windows 10. I recently purchased a Windows 11 machine. On that machine, when I give GFW the following command, I get the response shown:
> >> 
> >> $ git commit -a
> >> […]
> >> hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file… C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe: C:Program: command not found
> >> error: There was a problem with the editor ‘C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe’.
> >> Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
> >
> > I think the "command not found" indicates that you may have specified
> > your editor incorrectly.  In Git Bash, can you try the following
> > commands, one at a time, and then commit between each one to see if one
> > of them works?
> >
> >   git config --global core.editor '"C:/Program Files/Sublime Text 
> > 3/sublime_text.exe"'
> >   git config --global core.editor '"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 
> > 3\sublime_text.exe"'
> >
> > I believe that both should work here.
> >
> > My guess is that this is the situation hinted at in the FAQ[0], where,
> > because the editor is passed to the shell (bash), you need to use double
> > quotes to prevent it from thinking that you have a program named
> > "C:\Program" with arguments "Files\Sublime", "Text", and
> > "3\sublime_text.exe".
> >
> > Hopefully this works; if not, please let us know, and hopefully someone
> > on the list who uses Windows can provide some help.  I'm afraid that, as
> > a Linux user, I'm not able to provide more than a guess here.
> >
> > [0] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitfaq#configure-editor

It looks like this was sent to just me and not the list, so forwarding
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-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA

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