I often use gvim on Windows. In order to quickly point a Windows explorer window to the current working directory of gvim, I yank the full path at to top of netrw into the "+" registry (a trick I learned in this forum) and past it into the address field of the Windows explorer window.
When I use this trick to open up files in older apps, however, they choke on the forward slash. So I have to past the path into a new vim window and replace all back-slashes by forward slashes. Or in the new vim window, I create the command cygpath -aw /The/Full/Path and issue !!bash I've got the vim options set up so that cygwin's bash is properly invoked most of the time. A 3rd way to get the path converted to backslashes is to open up a new temporary Windows explorer window and past it into the address field and press return. It converts it, I copy the path again and banish the Windows explorer window. All of these methods are really round about. The most direct way would be for a netrw option to allow users to select the use of backslash for display of paths. Would such a thing exist? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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_use" 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.
