p4 change not working with gvim

Question

I use perforce as source code repository. p4 change command is used to create a changelist of opened files. If I set setenv EDITOR gvim and then run this command then gvim opens and I add some description and then save and quit. I get below error. Same error does not come if EDITOR is not set, I mean in that case vim opens. Any idea to fix this issue?

sachina@inn-sachina-vm[285] p4 change
Error in change specification.
Error detected at line 29.
Change description missing.  You must enter one.
Hit return to continue...

Answer 1

Applications that invoke EDITOR assume that the command blocks until editing is done and the editor was closed. While true for vim, the GUI version gvim launches in the background; i.e. the command returns immediately.

You can avoid this via the :help -f command-line option:

setenv EDITOR 'gvim -f'