Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim

Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by dsp1234 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:10PM (#14403653)

git bash on windows has vim as the default editor when editing commit messages

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by fishywang on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:14PM (#14403691)

Maybe 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.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by hepek on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:48PM (#14404037)

I 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.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by masklinn on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:00PM (#14404727)

Technically it's part of the optional "User Portability Utilities" feature group, and so is ex, the only mandatory editor in POSIX is "ed".

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by xxs on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:42PM (#14403963)

'nano' is fine

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by simopaa on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:39PM (#14403945)

I switched to nano recently, and it wasn't as easy as it perhaps should have been: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36802996/bash-nano-comma...

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