Get `notepad.exe` to work as editor

[dscho]

Yep, it is ugly, but it is more intuitive than vim...

[linquize]

But notepad.exe does not know LF as line ending, which is more stupid

[dscho]

I would call it unfortunate, but yes, this is one thing I need to address (and talking about it won't fix it...).

[Dirk1966]

I know a lot of Windows users and I always recommended them of installing Notepad++, where you can find a lot of hints how to do it (see at bottom).
If you want to implement this, then git.exe should analyze the text and replace CRLF by LF?!? Or do you plan to provide a wrapper script which does this by configuration?

32 bit NotePad++
git config --global core.editor "'C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin"

64 bit NotePad++
git config --global core.editor "'C:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin"

[PhilipOakley]

Just to confirm that those four Notepad++ options "-multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin" have worked well for me. And they appear to the lead advice on StackOverflow.

I even have the same quoting inside my .gitconfig ;-)

but that's not plain vanilla notepad.exe though...

[Dirk1966]

Hi all, I created a perl wrapper for notepad, which replaces the stuff and checks for errors.
I did not put it in the git-queue, this I will try today. Had problems with the perl output with LF instead of CRLF only although I used binmode and used a "hackaround" with dos2unix.

[Dirk1966]

My perl shell script seems to work now also under Windows 10.
I did not identify why I had problems there last night. I tested it
under the current "git for Windows 2" under "Windows 10" and
"Windows 8.1". Shall I put the perl script somewhere?

[Dirk1966]

An extensive log shows that I might have a perl problem on "Windows 10", but I was able to check in there.

[dscho]

Shall I put the perl script somewhere?

If you want anybody else to benefit from it, I would highly recommend that. Maybe as a Pull Request? It could live in git-extra, just like e.g. vi...

An extensive log shows that I might have a perl problem on "Windows 10",

I had problems on Windows 10, too, recently, but only in 32-bit mode. It would display the famous 32-bit problems and it would need some trickery.

You did not let us know, however, what the nature of your emergency was, nor much of any context. In any case, different problems are better discussed in different tickets.

[Dirk1966]

I created my first real repo and put the solution including some docu and two additional test files there:
https://github.com/Dirk1966/NotPad.git
I tested it now successfully under 64bit Windows 7, 8.1 and could use notepad.exe under Windows 10, 32 bit, but it seems that CRLF is not replaced by LF after editing the file with notepad.exe.

Unfortunately, I could not push to git-extra. Will try this evening again.

$ git push --set-upstream origin perl-wrapper-notepad.exe-as-commit-editor
Username for 'https://github.com': Dirk1966
Password for 'https://Dirk1966@github.com':
remote: Permission to git-for-windows/build-extra.git denied to Dirk1966.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

[Dirk1966]

Got the stuff in with the web interface.
If you call the script without a file name, there is a small description/explanation.
Create NotPad.sh
[https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/pull/76]

[dscho]

Got the stuff in with the web interface.

Probably you forked only during that edit; you can now push into the forked repository, now that you have it.