On 06/08/2020 23.18, Anton Shepelev wrote:
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.
I apologise for replying so late, I missed your message and then forgot
about the thread
Yes, I agree with you, "Make Vim available on command line" sounds good.
By the way, for the developers, I also noticed that the italian
translation of the option is wrong and very hard to understand (I think
a correct one, for the current descriptions, would be "Crea file .bat"
and "Crea file .bat per varianti di Vim nella directory di Windows, per
utilizzo da riga di comando").
Kind regards,
Gabriele
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