Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Re: VIM seems in a parallel world

On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:11:09 AM UTC-6, lordkrandel wrote:
> On 08/01/2013 11:14, Vincent Becquevort wrote:
> > I just installed VIM 7.3.46 on Windows and it seems to don�t see exactly the same files has Windows did.
>
> Can you please check this folder on your system:
>
> C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
>

Yes. Because a standard Vim install is a 32-bit application, any 64-bit Windows system (i.e. most systems purchased new in the last few years and some prior to that) will transparently redirect any references to C:\Windows\System32 to C:\Windows\SysWow64 instead.

You can force Vim (or any other 32-bit application) to access the 64-bit folder using C:\Windows\Sysnative. See the following thread:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/Z4e-WQ92uiM/discussion

The other option is to either compile a 64-bit Vim yourself, or find one that somebody else built. There are a couple listed here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Download

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