On 2/9/14, carolus wrote: > On 2/9/2014 4:16 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Just create a shell link in your personal "Send To..." folder with >> specified >> command. On Windows XP, it is in "%USERPROFILE%/SendTo". Dunno about >> other, >> This way, even though a bit convoluted, allow you to edit ANY file with >> your >> chosen program. Regardless of extension, and even in absence of it, as it >> is >> the case for many traditional shell scripts. > > On Windows 7, %USERPROFILE$ points to my user folder. But I get an > "access forbidden" message if I try to open the SendTo subdirectory from > Explorer. There is no option to right-click and elevate, and I get the > same "access forbidden" message even if I switch to an administrator > account. Strangely, I can open that directory from the command line, but > the only way I know how to create a Windows link is by right-click > drag&drop from the GUI. > >> >>>> >> I.e. just make an association to open a file with vi(m). In a usual >>>> >> Windows way. >>> > The only "usual Windows way" I know is for windows executables. >> Cygwin applications are (surprize!) windows executables > > But not "normal" executables in the sense that they run when you click > on them from Explorer. Somehow you have to get into cmd.exe first. And > then you need to get the path and filename into vim. This is getting > too complicated for a nonprogrammer like myself.
I'm surprised this worked, but right click on a .txt file in explorer, select open with, choose program click on "browse", navigate to c:\cygwin\bin (or wherever you installed cygwin), double-click on vi.exe > Probably the subject is best dropped. It is more a Windows problem than > a Cygwin one, and I have been getting by with the clumsy method for the > last ten years. I just thought there might be an easy fix. have you tried http://www.vim.org/download.php installs a windows version of vi that you can put in your path & no nasty cygwin/windows permissions or line endings issues. Regards, Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple