Re: Editors invoked by git rebase -i

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> I used "git rebase -i" to combine several commits into
> one for the first time recently.  This was in ubuntu.
> It threw me for a while because the first editor it
> brought up was nano (to edit the list of commits) and
> then vi (to edit the commit messages).  Not being
> familiar with either, the way to save and exit took me
> quite a few minutes to work out.
>
> It it possible to configure git to use another editor,
> like the ubuntu default, gedit, for these?

I think that you just need to configure your EDITOR environment variable
properly.  I don't remember offhand whether VISUAL or EDITOR is used
preferentially.

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David Kastrup