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 click "Next", when prompted for the name, enter "Vim", close the dialog with "Finish". In Cygwin's window: > cd /bin > cat <<EOF #! /bin/sh exec vim -- "`cygpath -u $1`" EOF > chmod a+x vim.sh Now you can check whether it work by going to C:\cygwin\ in Windows Explorer, right-clicking Cygwin.bat, and using "Send To" with "Vim". HTH, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- 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