Garner Halloran wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 20, 9:22 am, Garner Halloran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Using 7.3a BETA on Windows 7. If I double click on any file in explorer
> > > that has been associated with gvim it brings up an empty editor. I can
> > drag
> > > the file into the window and it will work. I can right click and Edit
> > with
> > > Vim and it will work. Gvim is my editor for p4v and if I double click a
> > > file there it works.
> > >
> >
> >
> > What happens if you set up file associations manually?
> >
> > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Windows_file_associations
> >
> > This is probably a problem with the installer...maybe Windows 7 does
> > file associations differently than previous Windows versions? If so we
> > should update the tip as well as the installer.
> >
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> That did not work. I tried this with just a .txt file.
>
> assoc .txt=txtfile
> ftype txtfile="c:\vim\vim73b\gvim.exe" --remote-silent "%1"
>
> It still launches gvim but no text.
>
> I also tried this:
>
> assoc .=txtfile
>
> Then I tried to double-click _vimrc and it opened it up in an existing gvim
> and replaced one of my buffers. I then closed all of my gvim windows and
> tried again. Double-clicking _vimrc opened it up in a new window. Very
> strange.
>
> And finally I closed all gvim windows and tried opening a .txt file again,
> but no luck.
I suspect it's a problem with OLE. It registers Vim as a server, but
uses the ordinary registry methods.
The installer src/dosinst.c was changed to use registry methods that
also work for a 32 bit binary running on 64 bit windows. Perhaps
someone can look into this and adjust src/if_ole.cpp?
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