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Re:Developer Survey Results by jhasse on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @09:35AM (#16575942)
vim is Git's default editor. Emacs isn't even installed by default on many system.
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Re:Developer Survey Results by RandomCSGeek on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @10:28AM (#16576348)
"By default, Git uses whatever you’ve set as your default text editor via one of the shell environment variables VISUAL or EDITOR, or else falls back to the vi editor" --git config guide https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Confi...
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Re:Developer Survey Results by jhasse on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @10:43AM (#16576487)
Git for Windows ships vim for example.
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Re:Developer Survey Results by andrewjw on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @11:36AM (#16576991)
Actually, it ships user choice now. (You can select VS Code if you like.)
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