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Subject: vim not working as an editor for git
From: Adrian Hawryluk <adrian DOT hawryluk AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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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.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

after I do a Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Z I get:

  bash   -- my current shell
  git    -- ?? git invoked another git
   \_ sh  -- git invoking sh to invoke vim
    \_ vim -- finally, the actual vim process

Switching the editor to nano I get:

  bash   -- my current shell
  \_ bash  -- ?? executed when executing git command
   \_ git   -- the git that I thought I invoked
    \_ git   -- ?? git invoked another git
     \_ nano  -- git invoked nano directly

If I were to suspend the editor, they say:

  Use "fg" to return to nano
  Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM
  error: There was a problem with the editor 'nano -z'.

Can someone confirm that this is a bug?

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.

Thanks,


A

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  OOP Methodologies in C, C++ and more
        RT Embedded Programming
            GUI Development
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