bzr editor setup

[Aaron Bentley]

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Brett Calcott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got bzr 1.1, but this problem occurred also with 1.0. I'm using it on Mac 
> OSX Leopard.
> 
> I do a commit. (bzr ci). Up comes vim, I add comments, hit ZZ, and I get the 
> following:
> bzr: ERROR: Could not start any editor.
> Please specify one with:
>  - $BZR_EDITOR
>  - editor=/some/path in /Users/brett/.bazaar/bazaar.conf
>  - $VISUAL
>  - $EDITOR
> 
> bzr clearly did find the editor, as I was just using it! But it somehow loses 
> the file after I save and quit. (Note that EDITOR is set to vim, and editor in 
> the conf file is set to vim too, but I don't think this is the problem.)

Well, this depends which vim.  If you're using the console vim, you
should be fine.

But it sounds like perhaps you're using a GUI vim.  These detach from
the console, which means that Bazaar can't tell when you've quit.  With
gvim, this behavior can be suppressed with gvim -f.

Aaron
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