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Re: Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: carolus <worwor at bellsouth dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:07:37 +0400
- Subject: Re: Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, carolus!
>>>>> Is there some configuration that will let me open a text file in Cygwin
>>>>> vim by clicking on the file in an Explorer window?
>>>>
>>>> There's like 5 ways to do it.
>>>> What you've tried already and what your results so far?
>>>>
>>
>>> I don't know how to pass the filename and directory from an Explorer
>>> left-click to a Cygwin shell script. (I'm not a programmer, just a dumb
>>> engineer.)
>>
>> So, vim or shell script?...
>>
>>
> If there is no simple answer, let's just drop the subject. I'll
> continue to open cygwin and cd to the target directory whenever I want
> to open a file in vim and happen to be in Explorer.
As I said, there's like five different answers. Depends on what you actually
want to do.
I.e. just make an association to open a file with vi(m). In a usual Windows way.
But since you're changing subject back and forth, it's hard to help you.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 10.02.2014, <00:04>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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