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git bash on windows has vim as the default editor when editing commit messages

Maybe someone should file a bug to them? I don't think vim is a sane default value for EDITOR, but I have no idea whether there's any sane alternative on Windows.

'nano' is fine

I believe POSIX defines vi as mandatory visual text editor, which makes it present on any compliant OS and thus a sane default value for EDITOR.

Technically it's part of the optional "User Portability Utilities" feature group, and so is ex, the only mandatory editor in POSIX is "ed".

I switched to nano recently, and it wasn't as easy as it perhaps should have been: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36802996/bash-nano-comma...

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