Thanks Jeff,
That did the trick for this git newb. For the record, I had tried \(,
/(, double- and single-quoting the entire path (note that git config
--global had removed the quotes that were originally around the string).
Did not think of "nested" quotes.
Now, however, I have a different problem in that notepad++ is somehow
signalling git that editing is complete before I even get a chance to
edit the file. I am trying the command
>git commit --amend
Notepad++ opens with the message, but git completes the commit before I
get a chance to make any changes. I suspect the issue is that git fires
up a new instance of notepad++ (which in my case is already running with
some other files open). notepad++ sees the new instance starting and
subsumes it under the pre-existing instance and then closes the new
instance. git sees the task close and assumes I am done editing.
Oh well. Cannot use notepad.exe because it does not handle <lf> line
endings. I guess I'll stick to the git gui.
e.
On 2011-12-17 11:58, Jeff King wrote:
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:10:37AM +0100, Erik Blake wrote:
I have an editor path that includes "(" and ")". No matter how I try
to escape this character, I get either variations on:
C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe: -c: line 0: syntax
error near unexpected token `('
C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe: -c: line 0:
`C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe \$@\'
error: There was a problem with the editor 'C:/Program Files
(x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe'.
Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
or:
fatal: bad config file line 5 in C:\Users\xxx/.gitconfig
You didn't tell us what you actually tried, so I don't know where you
went wrong.
But you will need to quote the whole value for git to read from your
gitconfig, and then quote any metacharacters in the value so that the
shell doesn't interpret them. I think you want:
[core]
editor = "'C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe'"
-Peff
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