RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
Jeffrey Robertson wrote: No. That's my problem. How does gvim tell Windows to make itself an option in this list? [...] A.J.Mechelynck wrote: I'm not sure; I think it's something in the registry. Maybe the install program should do it. Have you installed Vim from Steve Hall's self-installer https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id= 39721 ? If you haven't, try doing it. I've now done this, and it's improved things but not fixed them. I get the open with vim option in my right-click menu, and this launches the file into gvim, so that's good. But if I simply double click, it launches to regular vim. That is, it opens what looks like a shell window and tries to open the file. It gets confused by spaces in the path, so it never actually succeeds in opening the file. If it go to Open With... and specify Vi Improved - A Text Editor, I get the same results. How can I make Open With launch to gvim? For those joining the discussion late, I'm using Windows XP. Bill McCarthy wrote: Like most of you on Win XP, I build my own Vim and Gvim (for Gvim I specify OLE=yes). From Windows Explorer, when I click on a .txt file, Gvim comes up for the file. I just tried clicking on a .vim file and received a dialog (see ONEofTWO.gif) telling me that Windows cannot open the file and asking me to search the web or select the program from a list. I picked select the program and got a second dialog. That dialog (see TWOofTWO.gif) let me pick Gvim and check the box to use Gvim for all .vim files. After performing these two tasks, Windows Explorer now opens Gvim whenever I click on a .vim file. I created a directory name with spaces and put a file in there with spaces in its name and ending with .vim - it opened fine from explorer. You say it let you pick Gvim. I assume you mean you selected Vi Improved - A Text Editor. I do the same thing, but it launches regular vim, not gvim. If this is not what you meant, please clarify. If anyone can explain my problems, please do so. -- Jeff.
Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
On Wed 13-Dec-06 9:26am -0600, you wrote: Bill McCarthy wrote: Like most of you on Win XP, I build my own Vim and Gvim (for Gvim I specify OLE=yes). From Windows Explorer, when I click on a .txt file, Gvim comes up for the file. I just tried clicking on a .vim file and received a dialog (see ONEofTWO.gif) telling me that Windows cannot open the file and asking me to search the web or select the program from a list. I picked select the program and got a second dialog. That dialog (see TWOofTWO.gif) let me pick Gvim and check the box to use Gvim for all .vim files. After performing these two tasks, Windows Explorer now opens Gvim whenever I click on a .vim file. I created a directory name with spaces and put a file in there with spaces in its name and ending with .vim - it opened fine from explorer. You say it let you pick Gvim. I assume you mean you selected Vi Improved - A Text Editor. I do the same thing, but it launches regular vim, not gvim. That's exactly what I mean. If this is not what you meant, please clarify. If anyone can explain my problems, please do so. Looking through my registry tree, Vi Improved - A Text Editor appears exactly 4 times, 2 each as data in: foo\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache Where foo is either: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software HKEY_USERS\S1-1-5-21- (long Key) The 2 Values are: C:\Vim\vim70\gvim.exe (where I execute from) C:\vim\vim70\src\gvim.exe (where make puts it) Searching my registry tree for any key, value or date containing vim.exe I only find things containing gvim.exe. Yes, I have and use vim.exe, but there are no references to it in the registry. -- Best regards, Bill
RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
Jeffrey Robertson wrote: No. That's my problem. How does gvim tell Windows to make itself an option in this list? [...] A.J.Mechelynck wrote: I'm not sure; I think it's something in the registry. Maybe the install program should do it. Have you installed Vim from Steve Hall's self-installer https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id= 39721 ? If you haven't, try doing it. I've now done this, and it's improved things but not fixed them. I get the open with vim option in my right-click menu, and this launches the file into gvim, so that's good. But if I simply double click, it launches to regular vim. That is, it opens what looks like a shell window and tries to open the file. It gets confused by spaces in the path, so it never actually succeeds in opening the file. If it go to Open With... and specify Vi Improved - A Text Editor, I get the same results. How can I make Open With launch to gvim? For those joining the discussion late, I'm using Windows XP. Thanks for all the help so far... -- Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
On Tue 12-Dec-06 4:43pm -0600, Jeffrey Robertson wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: I'm not sure; I think it's something in the registry. Maybe the install program should do it. Have you installed Vim from Steve Hall's self-installer https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id= 39721 ? If you haven't, try doing it. I've now done this, and it's improved things but not fixed them. I get the open with vim option in my right-click menu, and this launches the file into gvim, so that's good. But if I simply double click, it launches to regular vim. That is, it opens what looks like a shell window and tries to open the file. It gets confused by spaces in the path, so it never actually succeeds in opening the file. If it go to Open With... and specify Vi Improved - A Text Editor, I get the same results. How can I make Open With launch to gvim? For those joining the discussion late, I'm using Windows XP. Like most of you on Win XP, I build my own Vim and Gvim (for Gvim I specify OLE=yes). From Windows Explorer, when I click on a .txt file, Gvim comes up for the file. I just tried clicking on a .vim file and received a dialog (see ONEofTWO.gif) telling me that Windows cannot open the file and asking me to search the web or select the program from a list. I picked select the program and got a second dialog. That dialog (see TWOofTWO.gif) let me pick Gvim and check the box to use Gvim for all .vim files. After performing these two tasks, Windows Explorer now opens Gvim whenever I click on a .vim file. I created a directory name with spaces and put a file in there with spaces in its name and ending with .vim - it opened fine from explorer. [Without the attached GIFs] -- Best regards, Bill
Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
[ post reordered to conform with mailing list no-top-posting conventions ] Jeffrey Robertson wrote: -Original Message- From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:07 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32) Cc: Sean Plank; vim@vim.org Subject: Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Jeffrey Robertson wrote: No. That's my problem. How does gvim tell Windows to make itself an option in this list? [...] I'm not sure; I think it's something in the registry. Maybe the install program should do it. Have you installed Vim from Steve Hall's self-installer https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id=39721 ? If you haven't, try doing it. P.S. Please use bottom-posting or inter-posting in the Vim mailing lists. Best regards, Tony. Hi: I can't remember where I downloaded from, but it wasn't this page. But I did use a proper installer. I don't want Cream, just plain vim/gvim. Which link on this page should I choose, or do I need another page? Thanks, --+--+-- --- Jeffrey Robertson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | NORTEL Software Engineer +--+ 'I speak for myself, not Nortel' - Me Optical Networks 'Verbing weirds language'- CalvinOttawa, Canada The link above, which should be all on one line, sends to a page _hosted_ by the Cream project, but the installers listed on that page are for plain (g)vim without Cream. Download the most recent version, at the top of the list. Best regards, Tony. P.S. Unless you stray off-topic, please use Reply to list (if your mailer offers that option) or Reply to all but not Reply to sender. That way, other people will see your query even if I'm not at home.
RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
Thanks for replying. I do this and it doesn't work. By gvim, I assume you mean gvim.exe. When I do this, after I select gvim.exe and that dialog closes, the Open with dialog still shows Notepad selected. I can't get gvim to show up as an option in the program chooser list. I can get vim, but I want gvim. Any idea what's up? From: Dudley Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:06 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); vim@vim.org Subject: Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Jeffrey, Try this: 1. Right click on a .txt file 2. Select the Open With menu option 3. Select the Choose Program... menu option 4. Check the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file checkbox 5. Select gvim, you may have to browse to it. 6. Click ok. This should work for you, though you will have to do this for each file type you want gvim to open. If that does not work please let me know. There are other ways to achieve this, but this is the easiest. Sincerely, Dudley On 11/30/06, Jeffrey Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I just installed Vim 7.0 on my Windows XP box. I cannot force files with .txt (or any other extension) to automatically open in gvim. However, I do have the edit with vim option in my right-click menu. If I try to specify a new program to use for .txt and navigate to the folder with gvim.exe, even if I select it, it doesn't take effect (Notepad is still the default). I was able to do this on my old Win2K box with Vim 6.something. What's up? Thanks, Jeff
RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
I have many file types mapped into GVIM: .txt, .lst, .cfg, and others. Go to Windows explorer (my computer), tools -- Folder Options, and select the File Types tab. Select the extestion or file type, click the Change button, and select or specify the application. Ed -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:08 AM To: Dudley Fox; vim@vim.org Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Thanks for replying. I do this and it doesn't work. By gvim, I assume you mean gvim.exe. When I do this, after I select gvim.exe and that dialog closes, the Open with dialog still shows Notepad selected. I can't get gvim to show up as an option in the program chooser list. I can get vim, but I want gvim. Any idea what's up? From: Dudley Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:06 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); vim@vim.org Subject: Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Jeffrey, Try this: 1. Right click on a .txt file 2. Select the Open With menu option 3. Select the Choose Program... menu option 4. Check the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file checkbox 5. Select gvim, you may have to browse to it. 6. Click ok. This should work for you, though you will have to do this for each file type you want gvim to open. If that does not work please let me know. There are other ways to achieve this, but this is the easiest. Sincerely, Dudley On 11/30/06, Jeffrey Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I just installed Vim 7.0 on my Windows XP box. I cannot force files with .txt (or any other extension) to automatically open in gvim. However, I do have the edit with vim option in my right-click menu. If I try to specify a new program to use for .txt and navigate to the folder with gvim.exe, even if I select it, it doesn't take effect (Notepad is still the default). I was able to do this on my old Win2K box with Vim 6.something. What's up? Thanks, Jeff
RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
That's just a different way into the same dialog box I used in the first place. It doesn't work for me. Although I can select gvim.exe, it doesn't actually take effect. To be clear: 1) I click Change It says notepad is the default. 2) I click browse, and pick gvim.exe, and click Open. 3) Notepad is still listed as the default. Does gvim have to register something with Windows to get recognized as a valid choice? -- Jeff. -Original Message- From: Krall, Ed-P27726 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:45 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); Dudley Fox; vim@vim.org Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP I have many file types mapped into GVIM: .txt, .lst, .cfg, and others. Go to Windows explorer (my computer), tools -- Folder Options, and select the File Types tab. Select the extestion or file type, click the Change button, and select or specify the application. Ed -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:08 AM To: Dudley Fox; vim@vim.org Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Thanks for replying. I do this and it doesn't work. By gvim, I assume you mean gvim.exe. When I do this, after I select gvim.exe and that dialog closes, the Open with dialog still shows Notepad selected. I can't get gvim to show up as an option in the program chooser list. I can get vim, but I want gvim. Any idea what's up? From: Dudley Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:06 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); vim@vim.org Subject: Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Jeffrey, Try this: 1. Right click on a .txt file 2. Select the Open With menu option 3. Select the Choose Program... menu option 4. Check the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file checkbox 5. Select gvim, you may have to browse to it. 6. Click ok. This should work for you, though you will have to do this for each file type you want gvim to open. If that does not work please let me know. There are other ways to achieve this, but this is the easiest. Sincerely, Dudley On 11/30/06, Jeffrey Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I just installed Vim 7.0 on my Windows XP box. I cannot force files with .txt (or any other extension) to automatically open in gvim. However, I do have the edit with vim option in my right-click menu. If I try to specify a new program to use for .txt and navigate to the folder with gvim.exe, even if I select it, it doesn't take effect (Notepad is still the default). I was able to do this on my old Win2K box with Vim 6.something. What's up? Thanks, Jeff
Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
I have had inexplicable and inconsistent trouble with Windoz doing this at least since back in version 98. It's infuriating. Jeffrey Robertson wrote: That's just a different way into the same dialog box I used in the first place. It doesn't work for me. Although I can select gvim.exe, it doesn't actually take effect. To be clear: 1) I click Change It says notepad is the default. 2) I click browse, and pick gvim.exe, and click Open. 3) Notepad is still listed as the default. Does gvim have to register something with Windows to get recognized as a valid choice? -- Jeff. -Original Message- From: Krall, Ed-P27726 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:45 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); Dudley Fox; vim@vim.org Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP I have many file types mapped into GVIM: .txt, .lst, .cfg, and others. Go to Windows explorer (my computer), tools -- Folder Options, and select the File Types tab. Select the extestion or file type, click the Change button, and select or specify the application. Ed -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:08 AM To: Dudley Fox; vim@vim.org Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Thanks for replying. I do this and it doesn't work. By gvim, I assume you mean gvim.exe. When I do this, after I select gvim.exe and that dialog closes, the Open with dialog still shows Notepad selected. I can't get gvim to show up as an option in the program chooser list. I can get vim, but I want gvim. Any idea what's up? From: Dudley Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:06 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); vim@vim.org Subject: Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Jeffrey, Try this: 1. Right click on a .txt file 2. Select the Open With menu option 3. Select the Choose Program... menu option 4. Check the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file checkbox 5. Select gvim, you may have to browse to it. 6. Click ok. This should work for you, though you will have to do this for each file type you want gvim to open. If that does not work please let me know. There are other ways to achieve this, but this is the easiest. Sincerely, Dudley On 11/30/06, Jeffrey Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I just installed Vim 7.0 on my Windows XP box. I cannot force files with .txt (or any other extension) to automatically open in gvim. However, I do have the edit with vim option in my right-click menu. If I try to specify a new program to use for .txt and navigate to the folder with gvim.exe, even if I select it, it doesn't take effect (Notepad is still the default). I was able to do this on my old Win2K box with Vim 6.something. What's up? Thanks, Jeff
RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
Doesn't matter whether that box is ticked or not. I can't open with gvim. From: Dudley Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 1:14 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); vim@vim.org Subject: Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Jeffery, As you described your actions below you need to take one additionall step. 2.5 Check the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file checkbox (step 4 in the original list I sent you). The checkbox is tucked away under the list of programs you can choose from, and is not obvious at all. If that does not work, then I am truly at a loss. Enjoy, Dudley On 12/1/06, Jeffrey Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just a different way into the same dialog box I used in the first place. It doesn't work for me. Although I can select gvim.exe, it doesn't actually take effect. To be clear: 1) I click Change It says notepad is the default. 2) I click browse, and pick gvim.exe, and click Open. 3) Notepad is still listed as the default. Does gvim have to register something with Windows to get recognized as a valid choice? -- Jeff. -Original Message- From: Krall, Ed-P27726 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:45 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); Dudley Fox; vim@vim.org Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP I have many file types mapped into GVIM: .txt, .lst, .cfg, and others. Go to Windows explorer (my computer), tools -- Folder Options, and select the File Types tab. Select the extestion or file type, click the Change button, and select or specify the application. Ed -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Robertson [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:08 AM To: Dudley Fox; vim@vim.org Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Thanks for replying. I do this and it doesn't work. By gvim, I assume you mean gvim.exe. When I do this, after I select gvim.exe and that dialog closes, the Open with dialog still shows Notepad selected. I can't get gvim to show up as an option in the program chooser list. I can get vim, but I want gvim. Any idea what's up? From: Dudley Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:06 PM To: Robertson, Jeffrey (CAR:QW32); vim@vim.org Subject: Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Jeffrey, Try this: 1. Right click on a .txt file 2. Select the Open With menu option 3. Select the Choose Program... menu option 4. Check the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file checkbox 5. Select gvim, you may have to browse to it. 6. Click ok. This should work for you, though you will have to do this for each file type you want gvim to open. If that does not work please let me know. There are other ways to achieve this, but this is the easiest. Sincerely, Dudley On 11/30/06, Jeffrey Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I just installed Vim 7.0 on my Windows XP box. I cannot force files with .txt (or any other extension) to automatically open in gvim. However, I do have the edit with vim
Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
When I use tools -- Folder Options File Types tab, Select the extestion or file type, click the Change button, browse to gvim. gvim shows up as Vi Improved - A Text Editor in the Open with dialog box. Is that what you are seeing? Vi Improved - A Text Editor is gvim Sean Plank 253.815.9626 Home - Original Message From: Jeffrey Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dudley Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]; vim@vim.org Sent: Friday, December 1, 2006 10:44:40 AM Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Doesn't matter whether that box is ticked or not. I can't open with gvim. Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
Jeffrey Robertson wrote: Thanks for replying. I do this and it doesn't work. By gvim, I assume you mean gvim.exe. [...] By gvim what is meant under Windows is the entry labeled VI Improved - A Text Editor. Best regards, Tony.
RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
No. That's my problem. How does gvim tell Windows to make itself an option in this list? -Original Message- From: Sean Plank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 2:27 PM To: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP When I use tools -- Folder Options File Types tab, Select the extestion or file type, click the Change button, browse to gvim. gvim shows up as Vi Improved - A Text Editor in the Open with dialog box. Is that what you are seeing? Vi Improved - A Text Editor is gvim Sean Plank 253.815.9626 Home - Original Message From: Jeffrey Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dudley Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]; vim@vim.org Sent: Friday, December 1, 2006 10:44:40 AM Subject: RE: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP Doesn't matter whether that box is ticked or not. I can't open with gvim. Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
Re: I can't make gvim the default application for .txt files in WinXP
Jeffrey Robertson wrote: No. That's my problem. How does gvim tell Windows to make itself an option in this list? [...] I'm not sure; I think it's something in the registry. Maybe the install program should do it. Have you installed Vim from Steve Hall's self-installer https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id=39721 ? If you haven't, try doing it. P.S. Please use bottom-posting or inter-posting in the Vim mailing lists. Best regards, Tony.
