windows - use git bash as shell via set shell

[bjoernbuth]

Hi, thx for making this great tool to the devs and all that helped.

I'm using it on windows 10 and would like to be able to use it inside git bash. Is there any chance to do so ?

I tried by setting the shell command in the lfrc file file in ...\AppData\Local\lf\lfrc via

• set shell "c/Program Files/Git/bin/sh.exe"
• set shell "c:/Program Files/Git/bin/sh.exe"
  and many many variations of this (c:/ , using backslashes , different kinds of quoting, different locations,symlinks and so on) but never got it to work.

I either get errors of 3 types when pressing w (which should run a shell):

1. ...sh.exe does not exist
2. running shell .... exit status 126, this occure for exampe when trying (set shell bash.exe).
3. running shell .... exit status 1 (for set shell "c:/bash.exe" , which is admittedly a pretty desperate try considering I simply copied bash.exe there)

I would love to be able to use lf in git bash and thankful for help.

[joelim-work]

On Windows the shellflag option defaults to /c, have you tried changing it?

set shell 'C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe'
set shellflag '-c'

[bjoernbuth]

Thank you, this is working. Using this I can e.g. do $bash (I've mapped it to w as this seems a common shortcut and makes it easier to run bash) and inside the bash shell that shows up I have access to $f, $fx etc. which gives me many possibilities for further customization. Thanks again.