On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Les Nightingill <[email protected]> wrote: > Solved! (not entirely sure why, though!). Posting the solution here for future Googlers. > The solution is on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4737381/git-editor-not-working-with-macvim > The solution is this configuration: > > git config --global core.editor "mvim -f"
In general, any editor that opens itself *in the background* is not going to work. When the editor hands control back to Git, Git thinks it's because you're done editing. Any other command-line tool that uses $EDITOR will have the same issue. I'll bet you saw a blank file because Git deleted the file (which it thought you were done with) before mvim got around to opening it. -- -PJ Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
