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Re: Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr at ncbi dot nlm dot nih dot gov>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:34:48 +0400
- Subject: Re: Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]!
> My suggestion was not an exact recipe, it was just a scheme.
> Here the exact step-by-step procedure. I've checked it works on my Windows 7 box.
> From the Windows "Start" menu, in the Search box at the bottom
> (formerly called "Run") enter (substitute <YourUserName> with whatever
> ID you are going by on that Windows system):
> C:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
> In the opened Explorer window, right click on unoccupied space on the right hand
pane, select "New"->>"Shortcut".
> As prompted for "Location", enter (I assume your Cygwin installation is
> at C:\cygwin):
> C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l /bin/vim.sh
Just
C:\Programs\CygWin\bin\mintty.exe --exec /bin/vi.exe
is enough.
No need to make it more convoluted, than it really necessary.
Then everything else became unnecessary as well.
> click "Next", when prompted for the name, enter "Vim",
> close the dialog with "Finish".
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 11.02.2014, <06:33>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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