On 20-Aug-08 16:16, Robert Webb wrote:
> 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.
Use ":silent ! start %"; the 'silent' will close the DOS window immediately. I
use this
map <Leader>x :silent ! start "1" "%:p"<CR>
to execute the current file. ':p' makes this independent from the CWD, the
surrounding "" make it handle spaces. The "1" is the optional "title" argument
to 'start'; I've read somewhere that sometimes 'start' may confuse the command
for the title if the title is missing, so I keep that dummy title in there.
-- regards, ingo
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