Gabriele Fava: > I dug through vim's history and I found out that > these batch files were introduced along with the > nsis instaler in vim 6.0 > (https://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim60.exe), > and the option's description stayed "Create .bat > files for command line use" from that version up > to v8.1.0616 when the whole installer was re- > freshed (and the current "Create .bat files" > string was introduced).
Thanks for the reasearch, Gabriele! > It's not very easy to choose a better name, maybe > "Add .bat files in %SystemRoot%" might be more > clear (hopefully with %SystemRoot% expanded to its > actual value - usually C:\Windows). And the de- > scription maybe might just say, since there's only > so much space for it, something like "...so that > typing 'vim', 'gvim' etc. will launch vim from any > command prompt" It is a hard problem in English compostion, indeed. Maybe say something more abstract: 1. Make Vim available on command line 2. Register Vim for command-line invocaton and let the Description tell the implementation de- tails, that it means putting .bat files in C:\Windows ? I for one should prefer it that way, because this wording would not confuse me. -- 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/20200807001833.850bdee0cec2cd8b5a731404%40gmail.com.
