On 16-Feb-2012 16:15, MacDonald, Stuart wrote: > From: On Behalf Of Ben Fritz >> Unfortunately I'm running XP 64-bit, not Vista or 7 just yet. >> >> The pages you link say that "Disabling file system redirection for >> longer periods can prevent 32-bit applications from loading system >> DLLs, causing the applications to fail." What if we add an option to >> 64-bit Windows Vim to disable the redirection? It could even >> automatically set the $PATH to include the 32-bit directories before >> their 64-bit counterparts so that system files continue to load >> properly, but anything not found in the 32-bit directories will be >> looked for in the 64-bit ones. > > I say an option is the correct way; make 32-bit vim operate "normally" > but allow it to see past the redirection if that's needed.
>From http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc: > Native 64-bit binaries for MS-Windows can be found at > http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/. The Win32 binaries should run > too, but the 64 bit version has a few minor advantages (see the web page > at the link). I guess avoiding the file system redirection is one of the "few minor advantages" the text hints at. I've been using the 64-bit version on Windows 7 without problems. To me, this is too little of an issue (and, as this discussion showed, it's already difficult to actually detect the proper underlying root cause from the symptoms (blame Microsoft for that)) to warrant a special implementation and option in 32-bit Vim. -- regards, ingo -- 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
