I have the same problem with 7.3b BETA on Windows XP SP3 32-bit, having associated a filetype by right-clicking in Windows Explorer and setting it to always open in gvim.exe.
On Jul 28, 3:57 pm, Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote: > Garner Halloran wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jul 20, 9:22 am, Garner Halloran <garner...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Using 7.3a BETA on Windows 7. If I double click on any file in explorer > > > > that has been associated with gvim it brings up an empty editor. I can > > > drag > > > > the file into the window and it will work. I can right click and Edit > > > with > > > > Vim and it will work. Gvim is my editor for p4v and if I double click a > > > > file there it works. > > > > What happens if you set up file associations manually? > > > >http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Windows_file_associations > > > > This is probably a problem with the installer...maybe Windows 7 does > > > file associations differently than previous Windows versions? If so we > > > should update the tip as well as the installer. > > > > -- > > > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > > > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > > > For more information, visithttp://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > > That did not work. I tried this with just a .txt file. > > > assoc .txt=txtfile > > ftype txtfile="c:\vim\vim73b\gvim.exe" --remote-silent "%1" > > > It still launches gvim but no text. > > > I also tried this: > > > assoc .=txtfile > > > Then I tried to double-click _vimrc and it opened it up in an existing gvim > > and replaced one of my buffers. I then closed all of my gvim windows and > > tried again. Double-clicking _vimrc opened it up in a new window. Very > > strange. > > > And finally I closed all gvim windows and tried opening a .txt file again, > > but no luck. > > I suspect it's a problem with OLE. It registers Vim as a server, but > uses the ordinary registry methods. > > The installer src/dosinst.c was changed to use registry methods that > also work for a 32 bit binary running on 64 bit windows. Perhaps > someone can look into this and adjust src/if_ole.cpp? > > -- > If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. > When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb. > -- Steve Hoflich, comp.lang.c++ > > /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net --http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ > /// sponsor Vim, vote for features --http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/\\\ > \\\ download, build and distribute --http://www.A-A-P.org /// > \\\ help me help AIDS victims --http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php