[darcs-users] Problems with Windows binary

[Diego Essaya]

On 11/28/05, Edwin Thomson <edwin.thomson at businesswebsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Carrig, Lori wrote:
> > All;
> >
> > I wanted to try out darcs but it seems when I run record option I get an
> > error:
> >
> > D:\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\MIP>darcs record --all
> > What is the patch name? Initial
> > Do you want to add a long comment? [yn]
> > darcs: vi: runProcess: does not exist (No such file or directory)
> >
> > Any ideas on how to resolve this?  The platform is as follows:
>
> For inputting the long comment, darcs calls an external editor, which is
> vi by default.  The error you get is because Windows doesn't have vi.
> You can make it use notepad instead by using "set DARCS_EDITOR=Notepad"
> first.


Or, you can install gVim for Windows and set:

DARCS_EDITOR='c:\Program Files\Vim\vim64\gvim.exe'

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