Unfortunately, in my case I'm on windows (my company's choice, not mine).

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:55 PM, John Rood <mr.john.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Users should be able to configure Git to not send them into a Vim editor.
>
> See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-var
>
> GIT_EDITOR
>
> Text editor for use by Git commands. The value is meant to be interpreted
> by the shell when it is used. Examples: ~/bin/vi, $SOME_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE,
> "C:\Program Files\Vim\gvim.exe" --nofork. The order of preference is the
> $GIT_EDITOR environment variable, then core.editor configuration, then
> $VISUAL, then $EDITOR, and then the default chosen at compile time,
> which is usually vi.
>
>
> So maybe
>
>     git config --global core.editor "nano"
>
> helps in your case?

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