Re: using gvim as editor on Windows

Tait, 2010-03-08 19:54:

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On Windows, gvim -f is basically a shortcut for the start invocation I
pasted above.

Not necessarily. You can avoid using the .bat wrappers from C:\Windows,
which cause the problem, but use gvim.exe directly by setting your PATH
appropriately. It will also work for git-difftool.

I was hoping for a little more life in this thread.

First of all: do you have the problems in cmd.exe or Git Bash or both?

Does calling the .exe directly work for you? If I call gvim.exe directly
(with or without -f -- it doesn't matter), it opens a new file called
$@.

I don't know where the $@ should come from. You apparently don't invoke
gvim.exe directly. git-commit is a C program, not a shell script, there
should come no $@ from this side. What does invoking gvim.exe on the
command line without the use of git do?

I have:
core.editor=gvim -f
C:\Programme\Vim\vim72 in PATH (both before or after C:\WINDOWS works here)
Works with cmd.exe and Git Bash.

The problem seems to be unique to me, so I'll find some time to look at
what rebase and/or commit are doing wrong.

I guess neither rebase nor commit are wrong in this case.

Markus