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dsp1234
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Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
git bash on windows has vim as the default editor when editing commit messages
fishywang
on May 23, 2017
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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.
hepek
on May 23, 2017
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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.
masklinn
on May 23, 2017
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Technically it's part of the optional "User Portability Utilities" feature group, and so is ex, the only
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editor in POSIX is "ed".
xxs
on May 23, 2017
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'nano' is fine
simopaa
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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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