Hi, What's the best way (on Windows) to open a file from vim in whatever Windows normally uses to open that file? For example, :!% will open the current file, but it leaves a DOS window handing around while the file is open, which requires a hit-enter to get rid of after closing the file.
You also can't use vim until the file is closed in the external program. If I try ":!start %" to make them asynchronous, then it doesn't know how to open "%". If :!% knows to use "cmd /c", shouldn't ":!start %" know the same thing? The best way seems to be ":!start cmd /c %", but now the script will only work on Windows. There's also an annoying DOS window hanging around in the background. Any way to get rid of that? I can't find a scripting function to open a given file however the OS sees fit. Thanks, Rob. -- Robert Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MineSweeper3D - Take Minesweeper to a whole new dimension! http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---