Using notepad++ as editor for Git source control

Just a quick note, as much to my self as anyone else. I’m getting started with Git and wanted to use notepad++ as the editor for commits.

So I followed some basic instructions and tried setting it up like this:

git config --global core.editor "c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"

and got this:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe: -c: line 0: `c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe \$@\'
error: There was a problem with the editor 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe'.
Please supply the message using either -m or -F option. 

Helpful…

Different variations yielded the same results:

git config --global core.editor '"c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"' 
git config --global core.editor 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe' 
git config --global core.editor "'c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe'" 

Until this Stack Overflow answer pointed me in the right direction:

git config --global core.editor "'c:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe'"

So, keep those slashes going the right way