On Thursday, December 26, 2013 5:39:11 PM UTC-6, Adrian wrote: > The versioned install path ($INSTALLDIR/vim74/[g]vim.exe) is a major > annoyance on Windows. People are likely to assign file types to be opened > with vim. However, all those assignments break once a new Vim version is > installed (because the path changes, e.g. from vim73 to vim74). While this is > not too hard to fix (searching for the old path using regedit), any other > program that is configured to call Vim for something has the same problem! > > The easiest solution would be installing a "proxy"-like file in $INSTALLDIR > which simply calls the exe with the same name in $INSTALLDIR/vimXY/ and > forwards all arguments.
You mean like the gvim.bat, vim.bat, etc. files created in C:\Windows by the installer? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
