On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote:
> 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? > > > OutlookVim simply relies on the fact that Vim was setup as an OLE source. Here is what I suggest: 1. Go to your vim73 directory and run: gvim.exe -unregister 2. Go to your vim74 directory and run: gvim.exe -register See if that makes a difference. David -- -- 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
