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Not git's fault, it uses your OS's EDITOR and VISUAL environmental vars (same thing you get when you run, for example, "crontab -e" and other utilities that wan

Not git's fault, it uses your OS's EDITOR and VISUAL environmental vars (same thing you get when you run, for example, "crontab -e" and other utilities that want a visual editor).

recursive 6y ago
Hm. I don't think I had such a variable prior to the installation of git. Edit: In fact, still don't. The git editor seems to be configured by some git config rather than environment variables.
- raggi 6y ago
  The behavior is mostly congruent with other programs, for example less(1) probably also falls back to vi(1) on your system if you press v.
  - recursive 6y ago
    I should clarify, I'm using Windows, which normally doesn't have either of those, except for maybe cygwin or WSL.
  - takeda 6y ago
    TIL, had no idea about that `less` starts an editor on `v`.