vim not working as an editor for git
Jeremy Hetzler
jeremyhetzler@gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 04:44:00 GMT 2013
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Adrian Hawryluk <---> wrote:
> Doing a simple command like
>
> git config -e
>
> just hangs the terminal. I can break out or suspend the process, but
> in both cases it, the git that I though I was executing is terminated
> and the git underneath remains, leaving a sh process executing a vim
> process.
I can say that launching vim using 'git config -e' works fine for me.
I can edit the config, and suspend and resume vim, with no problems.
> I.e. what the process tree looks like:
>
> bash -- my current shell
> \_ bash -- ?? executed when executing git command
> \_ git -- the git that I thought I invoked
> \_ git -- ?? git invoked another git
> \_ sh -- git invoking sh to invoke vim
> \_ vim -- finally, the actual vim process
>
This is also not what I am seeing. 'ps' shows the expected one copy of
bash and one copy of vim. I am using mintty for my terminal.
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 box3 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin
Hope this is helpful.
Yours,
Jeremy Hetzler
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