On Feb 15, 3:29 am, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Method II
> ---------
> 1. Make sure that "D:\Program Files\vim\vim72" (without the quotes) is
> part of your PATH, which IIRC is a semicolon-separated list. How to set
> the PATH varies between versions of Windows; on XP it is (IIRC) in
> "Control Panel => System => Advanced => Environment variables" (or, if I
> didn't RC, somewhere not too far from that).
This step is probably unneccessary. Every gvim installer I have found
will automatically place batch files in C:\WINDOWS\system32 (already
in your path) with names like gvim.bat, vim.bat, etc.
> 2. Start a Dos Box (for instance by invoking cmd.exe in the Execute item
> of your Start Menu). You may keep that Dos Box constantly open, it is
> very useful. Start gvim from the command-line, as (e.g.)
>
> gvim.exe filename.ext
>
> or even without a filename if you want it to open on its "splash screen"
> without editing an existing file.
>
You can (and should) omit the ".exe" from gvim.exe to allow the
automatically placed batch files do their thing.
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