Gabriele Fava to Christian Brabandt: > > I believe the vim installer adds a vim.bat or gvim.bat > > file to C:\windows\system32 > > It adds various .bat files, among which vim.bat and > gvim.bat, to C:\Windows, which by default is included in > the %PATH%. > > It is indeed quite unusual and if you're not aware or have > forgotten about the files it's not very easy to find out > what's going on. > > However the installer mentions them clearly (currently the > option is called "Create .bat files", with a description > "Create .bat files for Vim variants in the Windows > directory for command line use"), and indeed they are not > added by the default installation, you have to toggle the > option manually or choose the "Full" installation.
Indeed. I thought those .bat files to were supplementary scripts for using Vim non-interactively and did not care a carrot about reading the detailed description. Thank you for the explanation, Gabriele. I should like to propose a more descriptive name for that installer item but cannot come up with one sufficiently short. -- Please, do not forward replies to my e-mail. -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20200803233411.c2d1adb1e0ac1a92b51da4fa%40gmail.com.
