Re: one instance of gvim on windows?

On 28/04/10 02:57, Tom Link wrote:
>> The filename doesn't change; what may change (on Windows, not on Unix)
>> is the name of the directory containing it
>
> I.e. the full/absolute filename.
>
>> Just make sure (if you have
>> several versions installed) that the executable you want to launch by
>> default is the first one of that name in the PATH.
>
> Then you'd have to change the PATH variable after each update.

Only after each major or minor version update. Not after patchlevel
updates within a version. Version 7.2.0 was released on 2008-08-09, the
latest patchlevel is 7.2.411 (2010-03-23), they both use a VIMRUNTIME
directory whose last element is vim72. Vim 7.3 is only just now being
talked about, but no ETA has been set yet AFAIK.

>
> Anyway, my suggestion to use an editor.bat script makes it possible to
> quickly switch editor without having to change any file associations
> -- in case you'd decide to switch to emacs one day

No thanks. Five minutes was enough for me to understand that Emacs would
be forever foreign to me. Notepad I can use if I have to, Vim I really
like, Emacs I can't use at all.

> (and back
> again :-). This is equivalent to setting the EDITOR environment
> variable on other OS's and then tell apps to open your text files with
> $EDITOR but using environment variables doesn't always work out that
> well under windows.
>

Best regards,
Tony.
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