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    <p>Update September 2015 (6 years later)</p> <p>The <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.5.3.windows.1" rel="noreferrer">last release of git-for-Windows (2.5.3)</a> now includes:</p> <blockquote> <p>By configuring <strong><code>git config core.editor notepad</code></strong>, users <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/381" rel="noreferrer">can now use <code>notepad.exe</code> as their default editor</a>.<br> Configuring <code>git config format.commitMessageColumns 72</code> will be picked up by the notepad wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edits it.</p> </blockquote> <p>See <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/commit/69b301bbd7c18226c63d83638991cb2b7f84fb64" rel="noreferrer">commit 69b301b</a> by <a href="https://github.com/dscho" rel="noreferrer">Johannes Schindelin (<code>dscho</code>)</a>.</p> <p>And Git 2.16 (Q1 2018) will show a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets lost.</p> <p>See <a href="https://github.com/git/git/commit/abfb04d0c74cde804c734015ff5868a88c84fb6f" rel="noreferrer">commit abfb04d</a> (07 Dec 2017), and <a href="https://github.com/git/git/commit/a64f213d3fa13fa01e582b6734fe7883ed975dc9" rel="noreferrer">commit a64f213</a> (29 Nov 2017) by <a href="https://github.com/larsxschneider" rel="noreferrer">Lars Schneider (<code>larsxschneider</code>)</a>.<br> Helped-by: <a href="https://github.com/gitster" rel="noreferrer">Junio C Hamano (<code>gitster</code>)</a>.<br> <sup>(Merged by <a href="https://github.com/gitster" rel="noreferrer">Junio C Hamano -- <code>gitster</code> --</a> in <a href="https://github.com/git/git/commit/0c69a132cb1adf0ce9f31e6631f89321e437cb76" rel="noreferrer">commit 0c69a13</a>, 19 Dec 2017)</sup></p> <blockquote> <h2><code>launch_editor()</code>: indicate that Git waits for user input</h2> <p>When a graphical <code>GIT_EDITOR</code> is spawned by a Git command that opens and waits for user input (e.g. "<code>git rebase -i</code>"), then the editor window might be obscured by other windows.<br> The user might be left staring at the original Git terminal window without even realizing that s/he needs to interact with another window before Git can proceed. To this user Git appears hanging.</p> <p>Print a message that Git is waiting for editor input in the original terminal and get rid of it when the editor returns, if the terminal supports erasing the last line</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>Original answer</p> <p>I just tested it with git version 1.6.2.msysgit.0.186.gf7512 and Notepad++5.3.1</p> <p>I prefer to <em>not</em> have to set an EDITOR variable, so I tried:</p> <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>git config --global core.editor "\"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe\"" # or git config --global core.editor "\"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe\" %*" </code></pre> <p>That always gives:</p> <pre><code>C:\prog\git&gt;git config --global --edit "c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %*: c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe: command not found error: There was a problem with the editor '"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %*'. </code></pre> <p>If I define a npp.bat including:</p> <pre><code>"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %* </code></pre> <p>and I type:</p> <pre><code>C:\prog\git&gt;git config --global core.editor C:\prog\git\npp.bat </code></pre> <p>It just works from the DOS session, <strong>but not from the git shell</strong>.<br> (not that with the core.editor configuration mechanism, a script with "<code>start /WAIT...</code>" in it would not work, but only open a new DOS window)</p> <hr> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10564/how-can-i-set-up-an-editor-to-work-with-git-on-windows/1431003#1431003">Bennett's answer</a> mentions the possibility to avoid adding a script, but to reference directly the program itself <strong>between simple quotes</strong>. Note the direction of the slashes! Use <code>/</code> NOT <code>\</code> to separate folders in the path name!</p> <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>git config --global core.editor \ "'C:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin" </code></pre> <p>Or if you are in a 64 bit system:</p> <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>git config --global core.editor \ "'C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin" </code></pre> <p>But I prefer using a script (see below): that way I can play with different paths or different options without having to register again a <code>git config</code>.</p> <hr> <p>The actual solution (with a script) was to realize that:<br> <strong>what you refer to in the config file is actually a shell (<code>/bin/sh</code>) script</strong>, not a DOS script.</p> <p>So what does work is:</p> <pre><code>C:\prog\git&gt;git config --global core.editor C:/prog/git/npp.bat </code></pre> <p>with <code>C:/prog/git/npp.bat</code>:</p> <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>#!/bin/sh "c:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe" -multiInst "$*" </code></pre> <p>or</p> <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>#!/bin/sh "c:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe" -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin "$*" </code></pre> <p>With that setting, I can do '<code>git config --global --edit</code>' from DOS or Git Shell, or I can do '<code>git rebase -i ...</code>' from DOS or Git Shell.<br> Bot commands will trigger a new instance of notepad++ (hence the <code>-multiInst</code>' option), and wait for that instance to be closed before going on.</p> <p>Note that I use only '/', not <code>\</code>'. And I <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/623518/msysgit-on-windows-what-should-i-be-aware-of-if-any">installed msysgit using option 2.</a> (Add the <code>git\bin</code> directory to the <code>PATH</code> environment variable, but without overriding some built-in windows tools)</p> <p>The fact that the notepad++ wrapper is called .bat is not important.<br> It would be better to name it 'npp.sh' and to put it in the <code>[git]\cmd</code> directory though (or in any directory referenced by your PATH environment variable).</p> <hr> <p>See also:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/255202/how-do-i-view-git-diff-output-with-visual-diff-program/255212#255212">How do I view ‘git diff’ output with visual diff program?</a> for the general theory</li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/780425/how-do-i-setup-diffmerge-with-msysgit-gitk/783667#783667">How do I setup DiffMerge with msysgit / gitk?</a> for another example of external tool (DiffMerge, and WinMerge)</li> </ul> <hr> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/2716305/lightfire228">lightfire228</a> adds <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10564/how-can-i-set-up-an-editor-to-work-with-git-on-windows/773973#comment74027740_773973">in the comments</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>For anyone having an issue where N++ just opens a blank file, and git doesn't take your commit message, see "<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/30085970/6309">Aborting commit due to empty message</a>": change your <code>.bat</code> or <code>.sh</code> file to say:</p> </blockquote> <pre><code>"&lt;path-to-n++" .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG -&lt;arguments&gt;. </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>That will tell notepad++ to open the temp commit file, rather than a blank new one.</p> </blockquote>
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    1. COIn your shell script, you need double quotes around $*, otherwise it won't work properly for paths with spaces in them. Thanks for the thorough explanation - I'm installing git (and a bunch of other stuff) on Windows for beginning programmers, and the command line is hard enough to grok without making them learn vi commands.
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