Hi Buga, On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Igor Djordjevic wrote: > On 29/11/2017 14:57, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > * It is now possible to configure nano or Notepad++ as Git's > > default editor instead of vim. > > This seems as a really nice option, as it could\should greatly help > Windows people in lowering friction in first encounter with Git (for > Windows). > > Being pretty unfamiliar with Linux and its tools at the time, I > remember the initial frustration in trying to do what otherwise felt > as a no-brain, simple and trivial task - write the damn commit > message after `git commit`, lol. Even had to kill the bash window a > few times, not knowing what to do, where it was clear it was > expecting something from me :$ > > I later learned about vim, like getting started with Git wasn`t hard > enough... :) As soon as I found it being a possibility, I`ve set > Notepad++ as my default editor. Thanks for this entertaining personal account! And yes, you guessed it, I wanted this option for a long time, but never got around to it (always hoping that somebody would beat me to it...). BTW this installer page is probably far from done, there is a lot of room for improvement, e.g. this up-for-grabs ticket: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1356 (hint, hint ;-)) > That said, what is the Notepad++ as default editor option doing, just > setting: > > [core] > editor = 'F:/Install/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession > > ... inside users` .gitconfig (`git config --global`)? As you found out, it is set in the system config. There are two reasons for that: - the installer runs as administrator, so it cannot know for which user you want to configure Notepad++ - in case the user does not like the setting (as in your case), they can still override it in their $HOME forever. Ciao, Johannes
