Re: using gvim as editor on Windows

Tait, 2010-03-06 08:37:

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I'd prefer to use gvim as an editor on Windows XP instead of vim...
    start "dummy" /b /wait "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim72\gvim.exe" %*

Use the -f (stay in the foreground) flag.  I haven't tried this in
Windows, but that's how I've used it in Linux.

[core]
    editor = gvim -f

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.

Markus