vim not working as an editor for git

Gary Johnson garyjohn@spocom.com
Fri Dec 6 23:14:00 GMT 2013


On 2013-12-06, Adrian Hawryluk wrote:

> If I use gvim as my editor, it executes gvim and returns right away,
> not waiting for gvim to terminate.  This appears to be another bug.

I don't know about the first issue, but this issue is not a bug.  By
default, gvim launches into the background.  To keep it in the
foreground, use "gvim -f".

Regards,
Gary


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