Re: using gvim as editor on Windows

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> > I'd prefer to use gvim as an editor on Windows XP instead of vim...
> >     start "dummy" /b /wait "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim72\gvim.exe" %*
>
> 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

On Windows, gvim -f is basically a shortcut for the start invocation I
pasted above. It works well enough for commit, but not for rebase (or
alternately, for rebase -- so long as it doesn't open an editor for git
commit -- but not commit).

Tait

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