Hello, Jan Hudec wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:00:00 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote: > > On 2007-08-14 00:55:11 -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > Spawning the user's preferred editor would be a nice way to get some > > > of that. > > > > Mmm. I wouldn't call it a _nice_ way: popping up an external program > > just to get the right text editing behavior. More like the _only_ way, > > if the user is picky enough. > > It might actually have a rather serious twist. Often the editor for > git-commit would use the terminal git-commit runs on. But for git-gui you may > not have any terminal (running git-gui from context menu of some file > manager) and even if you do, the user does not expect it to be used. So the > user may -- and quite often will -- want different editors for running from > git-gui and git-commit. Alternatively you need to find out/let the user specify if her editor needs a terminal and then use xterm -e myfavoriteeditor or simply myfavoriteeditor depending on the result. Best regards Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-König $ dc -e "5735816763073014741799356604682P" - 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
