On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:04 PM, wolfv <wolfvo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:02:12 PM UTC-6, wolfv wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:24:29 PM UTC-6, Ben Fritz wrote: >> > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:29:07 PM UTC-5, wolfv wrote: >> > > > Can you use vimdiff, from C:\Users\wolf\Documents (rather than My >> > > > Documents)? >> > > >> > > I am using Windows 7. >> > > From Command Prompt: >> > > C:\Users\wolf\Documents>vim -d a.txt b.txt >> > > This pops up: >> > > C:\PROGRA~2\Vim\vim74\vim.exe is not a valid Win32 application. >> > > I click "OK" and Command Prompt says: >> > > Access is denied. >> > >> > Yeah that's probably a different problem. You can try running vim.exe in >> > compatibility mode. >> > >> > Does "gvim -d a.txt b.txt" work from that directory? How about "gvimdiff >> > a.txt b.txt"? >> >> Yes, that works (screen shot attached). >> So it was the just the fake "My Documents" directory the whole time. >> >> I vaguely remember when I first got Windows 7, I renamed "My Documents" to >> "Documents", then later Windows automatically changed it back to "My >> Documents", and I left it that way. >> >> Thank you for sticking with me through so much trouble shooting. Your help >> is is much appreciated. > > both "gvim -d a.txt b.txt" and "gvimdiff a.txt b.txt" work from Documents: > C:\Users\wolf\Documents>gvim -d a.txt b.txt > > C:\Users\wolf\Documents>gvimdiff a.txt b.txt >
Great! So, are you happy using just gvim? Or do you still want help getting vim.exe running? You may want to create a new thread for that if you do, I'm not sure how to go about fixing that one. I had a similar problem, which went away on its own when I gained admin rights: http://stackoverflow.com/q/23478373/1390430 But looking at the error text now, it differs from the one you're getting, so perhaps it is a completely different issue. -- -- 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/d/optout.
