From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com>
Cc: git-for-windows@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.15.1
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:44:05 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1711300238520.6482@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af169d17-708e-5ec0-53ee-b85df76e67c2@gmail.com>
Hi Buga,
On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Igor Djordjevic wrote:
> On 29/11/2017 14:57, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > * It is now possible to configure nano or Notepad++ as Git's
> > default editor instead of vim.
>
> This seems as a really nice option, as it could\should greatly help
> Windows people in lowering friction in first encounter with Git (for
> Windows).
>
> Being pretty unfamiliar with Linux and its tools at the time, I
> remember the initial frustration in trying to do what otherwise felt
> as a no-brain, simple and trivial task - write the damn commit
> message after `git commit`, lol. Even had to kill the bash window a
> few times, not knowing what to do, where it was clear it was
> expecting something from me :$
>
> I later learned about vim, like getting started with Git wasn`t hard
> enough... :) As soon as I found it being a possibility, I`ve set
> Notepad++ as my default editor.
Thanks for this entertaining personal account!
And yes, you guessed it, I wanted this option for a long time, but never
got around to it (always hoping that somebody would beat me to it...). BTW
this installer page is probably far from done, there is a lot of room for
improvement, e.g. this up-for-grabs ticket:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1356
(hint, hint ;-))
> That said, what is the Notepad++ as default editor option doing, just
> setting:
>
> [core]
> editor = 'F:/Install/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession
>
> ... inside users` .gitconfig (`git config --global`)?
As you found out, it is set in the system config. There are two reasons
for that:
- the installer runs as administrator, so it cannot know for which user you
want to configure Notepad++
- in case the user does not like the setting (as in your case), they can
still override it in their $HOME forever.
Ciao,
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-30 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-29 13:57 [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.15.1 Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-30 0:06 ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-11-30 1:44 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2017-11-30 1:50 ` [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.15.1(2), was " Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-30 7:57 ` stefan.naewe
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