Zile as git core editor?
Hi List, after experiencing one crash to many, I'm back to Standard Emacs (instead of Emacsserver/Emacsclient), thus using 'emacs' (instead of emacsclient) as git core editor triggers reading my huge init file and is way to slow. I would like to use Zile (a small Emacs clone) instead, and although otherwise it works alright on my system, it does not seem to work as git core editor. Is it possible to use 'git config --global core.editor zile'? -- cheers, Thorsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Zile as git core editor?
Hi, Is the GIT_EDITOR or EDITOR environment variable set? They may be overriding the core.editor setting. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, after experiencing one crash to many, I'm back to Standard Emacs (instead of Emacsserver/Emacsclient), thus using 'emacs' (instead of emacsclient) as git core editor triggers reading my huge init file and is way to slow. I would like to use Zile (a small Emacs clone) instead, and although otherwise it works alright on my system, it does not seem to work as git core editor. Is it possible to use 'git config --global core.editor zile'? -- cheers, Thorsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Zile as git core editor?
Tay Ray Chuan rcta...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Is the GIT_EDITOR or EDITOR environment variable set? They may be overriding the core.editor setting. Actually, EDITOR is set to Zile, so that should not be the problem: [tj@hostname ~]$ echo $EDITOR /usr/bin/zile [tj@hostname ~]$ echo $GIT_EDITOR [tj@hostname ~]$ BTW - would 'git config --global core.editor zile' or 'git config --global core.editor /usr/bin/zile' the right way to set it (both did not work)? I can start Zile simply with 'zile' on the command line. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, after experiencing one crash to many, I'm back to Standard Emacs (instead of Emacsserver/Emacsclient), thus using 'emacs' (instead of emacsclient) as git core editor triggers reading my huge init file and is way to slow. I would like to use Zile (a small Emacs clone) instead, and although otherwise it works alright on my system, it does not seem to work as git core editor. Is it possible to use 'git config --global core.editor zile'? -- cheers, Thorsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- cheers, Thorsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Zile as git core editor?
Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@gmail.com writes: BTW - would 'git config --global core.editor zile' or 'git config --global core.editor /usr/bin/zile' the right way to set it (both did not work)? I can start Zile simply with 'zile' on the command line. What do you mean by did not work? Does the launching fail? Or is another editor launched? Try: GIT_TRACE=true git commit -a to see what's going on. BTW, you may also try emacs -nw -Q instead of zile. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Zile as git core editor?
Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@gmail.com writes: BTW - would 'git config --global core.editor zile' or 'git config --global core.editor /usr/bin/zile' the right way to set it (both did not work)? I can start Zile simply with 'zile' on the command line. What do you mean by did not work? Does the launching fail? Or is another editor launched? Try: GIT_TRACE=true git commit -a to see what's going on. BTW, you may also try emacs -nw -Q instead of zile. Thanks for the tip, I found out that: 1. on the command-line, zile actually works as core editor, but 2. not from within Emacs (Magit) where I tried it emacs -nw -Q is a nice tip, but I think what I really would like to have it that, when I use GNU Emacs Magit and enter a git command ,- | Run git like this: command `- that calls an editor (e.g. commit --amend), the running Emacs instance is (re)used and a new buffer is opened for editing (instead of starting another Emacs instance). -- cheers, Thorsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Zile as git core editor?
Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@gmail.com writes: ... I think what I really would like to have it that, when I use GNU Emacs Magit and enter a git command ,- | Run git like this: command `- that calls an editor (e.g. commit --amend), the running Emacs instance is (re)used and a new buffer is opened for editing (instead of starting another Emacs instance). Hmph, isn't that what emacsclient is for? I have these (setenv PAGER cat) (setenv EDITOR emacsclient) (server-start) somewhere in my ~/.emacs to make commands in M-x compile behave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Zile as git core editor?
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@gmail.com writes: ... I think what I really would like to have it that, when I use GNU Emacs Magit and enter a git command ,- | Run git like this: command `- that calls an editor (e.g. commit --amend), the running Emacs instance is (re)used and a new buffer is opened for editing (instead of starting another Emacs instance). Hmph, isn't that what emacsclient is for? I have these (setenv PAGER cat) (setenv EDITOR emacsclient) (server-start) somewhere in my ~/.emacs to make commands in M-x compile behave. I was a big fan of emacsclient and used it quite some time - but finally those frequent Emacs crashes caused by it were just unbearable, so I went back to 'normal' use of Emacs. But maybe you are right - I should run a second Emacs instance as server only used to popup emacsclient buffers on demand, while doing all the serious stuff in a non-server instance of Emacs. -- cheers, Thorsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
