1 The package's home page contains detailed illustrated user manual, so user can quickly start to work with this package. To configure an editor, either set the EDITOR environmental variable to point at it, or run: The git-emacs package implements almost the same functionality, as the git.el package, but it also has some improvements, mostly in the user interface. Other editors may also work, but they must have a blocking edit mode. GitPad, which allows you to use Notepad as your editor. The default text editor is vi, unless explicitly changed by the system administrator. vim is the standard Linux and UNIX text editor. error: There was a problem with the editor 'vi' Introducing vim The newer version of vi text editor is called vim (Vi IMproved). I like to use vim to edit my commit messages, but I’ve been hit with this annoying message every time I write the message and quit vim. I have had an annoying problem with git and vi.
Fixing 'There was a problem with the editor 'vi'' for Git on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
