Re: WIN7 Can not set vim 7.3 as default program

On 2010-08-25, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Aug 25, 8:16 pm, "cncy...@gmail.com" <cncy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > it seems gvim 7.3 does not setup the registry key correctly.
> > you may run regedit in your command window, and add/modify the following
> > keys. if they do not exist, create them.
> >
>
> gvim doesn't set up ANY registry keys, by itself, except perhaps the
> OLE registration stuff. But you need to set up any file associations
> as the user, gvim doesn't even try to do it. Unless I completely
> missed that feature of the installer somewhere.

From my experience, it appears that the installer from vim.sf.net
does set up the ability to make those associations but the Cream
installer does not. After uninstalling all the Vim installations I
had accumulated over the years, I did a fresh install from the Cream
site. I could not get Windows to associate .txt files with
gvim.exe. Vim just would not appear among the applications in the
file associations dialog, even after browsing to it. I finally
uninstalled Vim, installed it instead from vim.sf.net, verified that
I could associate Vim with .txt and .vim files, then updated to
7.3.2 from the Cream site. It works fine now.

Regards,
Gary

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