> I somehow doubt that users of vim types "!git jump diff" (or > whichever submode they want) from within vim's command prompt; > wouldn't they typically wrap the invocation in a vim macro? Correct, in Vim parlance we'd create a command for this. > If my suspicion is correct, with an opt-in feature like the above > (which is designed not to hurt existing users), the vim users can > change their macro definition to not just invoke "git jump > <whatever>", but invoke "GIT_JUMP_AUTO_CAT=yes git jump <whatever>", > i.e. tell "git jump" that you are opting into the "cat the file, > instead of launching GIT_EDITOR". So with just a one-time setting, > vim (and other similar editor) users would benefit without hurting > others. > > For that matter, instead of introducing GIT_JUMP_AUTO_CAT, the same > mechanism can be used to run "GIT_EDITOR=cat git jump <whatever>", > i.e. tell "git jump" that it is expected to run "cat" as its > editor, from such a vim macro ;-) Yes. Another version that someone else implemented used similar method by unsetting "$GIT_EDITOR" when invoked from Vim and modified "git jump" to use cat when "$GIT_EDITOR" was empty. https://gist.github.com/romainl/a3ddb1d08764b93183260f8cdf0f524f/e1f548f6d96cd6ee97c3daadb4a1546fab7814ad I can request the author submit that as a patch if it is of interest.
