On 2013-12-13, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 13/12/13 06:11, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >My PC at work was recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. I
> >installed Vim 7.3 on it and installed the OutlookVim macro into
> >Outlook. So far so good. A while later, I installed Vim 7.4 when
> >it became available at the Vim Without Cream site. This continued
> >to work fine as long as a gvim instance was already running, which
> >happened to always be the case.
> >
> >Today I tried using OutlookVim from Outlook without any other gvim
> >running and it opened gvim 7.3 instead of 7.4. I can't figure out
> >how to get it to open gvim 7.4.
> >
> >* Neither Vim installation is in my PATH.
> >
> >* I opened Control Panel -> Default Programs -> "Associate a file
> > type or protocol with a program" and found three extensions
> > associated with Vim: .log, .txt and .vmb. For each of those, I
> > set .../vim74/gvim.exe as the default application.
> >
> >* I searched the OutlookVim plugin files and did not see a specific
> > version of gvim specified anywhere.
> >
> >* I reinstalled the OutlookVim macro into Outlook.
> >
> >None of that worked.
> >
> >Does anyone know how I can get OutlookVim to start gvim v.4 instead
> >of gvim 7.3?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Gary
> >
>
> I don't know OutlookVim but there ought to be an answer.
>
> Did you check if there were any register entries (in either
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER) associated with OutlookVim?
Checked. There are no matches anywhere in the registry.
I also searched the registry for "vim73" and found a few references,
but they were all on obscure paths with meaningless (to me) names.
> Or any OutlookVim preferences?
Checked. None that I have set nor the default values contain "73"
or "74".
> Or even hard or soft links, or whatever Windows names them,
> pointing from within reach of OutlookVim to the Vim binary?
I opened a Command Prompt and executed "gvim", thinking that perhaps
I had inadvertently installed the Vim batch files, but it said no
command found.
> If you find something pointing to Vim 7.3, change it to 7.4 (if
> you can, of course, since it's "at work").
I can. I hesitate to change any of those obscure registry entries,
though, not knowing what they're for.
> Otherwise, if nothing else avails, you could
> (a) always start Vim (if not already running) together with Outlook; or
> (b) arrange (I'm not sure how but I know it is possible) that
> invoking Vim 7.3 would always launch your latest 7.4. (This could be
> seen as "cheating", and would make Vim 7.3 unavailable.)
I have thought about uninstalling Vim 7.3, or renaming
...\vim73\gvim.exe to force a failure to launch OutlookVim and
hopefully to bring up a dialog asking me what program I want to use.
The main reason I keep Vim 7.3 around is to avoid breaking any
Windows applications or associations that I haven't yet changed to
use Vim 7.4. This is the first one that I haven't been able to
change.
As long as I was thinking about it, I decided to try renaming
...\vim73\gvim.exe. I then tried to use OutlookVim by clicking on
the Vim.Edit button in a reply. The result was not the dialog I was
hoping for but one with simply an error message:
Microsoft Outlook
-----------------
OutlookVim: Could not create a Vim OLE object, please ensure Vim has
been installed.
Inside Vim, the command[:echo has('ole')] should echo 1
I'll try to find that message within the OutlookVim plugin the next
time I have a few moments free.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Best regards,
Gary
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