Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, please. It would be more precise to > > s/without a tty/with TERM=dumb/ > > in the second paragraph but regardless this is a good description of the > problem. Strictly speaking, with TERM=dumb the true "vi" fell back to the ex mode and should have been usable. A purist might say it is a bug that we fatal out in this case (I know that it is deliberately done to help newbies from common confusion by not running any editor with TERM=dumb, but to a purist in me it feels somewhat wrong). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html