[Gambas-user] set $EDITOR Env

[Bruce Steers]

aah yes , version controls it said.
does that mean the version control actually works now ?
On all other gambas versions i don't get the message but clicking commit
and editing the journal then pressing commit just gives the message "Please
enter the journal" (and yes i typed a commit message in the journal)

So is gambas not an editor anymore?
It won't load anything that's not a gambas file anymore so it's looking
like it.
one of the various reasons i've reverted to 3.14


On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 18:03, Tobias Boege <taboege at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Bruce Steers wrote:
> > opening a project in latest commit tells me i need to set $EDITOR env to
> my
> > favorite graphical text editor. some controls need it?
> >
> > what's all that about?
>
> Does it perhaps say "version control" instead of "some controls"?
>
> If yes, then this blurb from the git-commit man page provides some
> explanation (git being an instance of a version control system which
> is supported by the Gambas IDE and requires some sort of editor to
> write commit messages):
>
>   ENVIRONMENT AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
>        The editor used to edit the commit log message will be chosen from
> the
>        GIT_EDITOR environment variable, the core.editor configuration
>        variable, the VISUAL environment variable, or the EDITOR environment
>        variable (in that order). See git-var(1) for details.
>
> The EDITOR variable seems to be the common denominator among programs
> that do not have text editors built in but sometimes need you to edit
> text. mutt uses VISUAL or EDITOR as well, as does subversion [1] for
> writing commit messages.
>
> Best,
> Tobias
>
> [1]
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.confarea.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.config
>
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