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git bash on windows has vim as the default editor when editing commit messages
by dsp1234 9y ago
git bash on windows has vim as the default editor when editing commit messages
- fishywang 9y agoMaybe someone should file a bug to them? I don't think vim is a sane default value for EDITOR, but I have no idea whether there's any sane alternative on Windows.
- xxs 9y ago'nano' is fine
- hepek 9y agoI believe POSIX defines vi as mandatory visual text editor, which makes it present on any compliant OS and thus a sane default value for EDITOR.
- masklinn 9y agoTechnically it's part of the optional "User Portability Utilities" feature group, and so is ex, the only mandatory editor in POSIX is "ed".
- simopaa 9y agoI switched to nano recently, and it wasn't as easy as it perhaps should have been: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36802996/bash-nano-command-not-found-at-windows-git-bash https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36802996/bash-nano-comma...