Re: Registration of Vim executable on Windows

On 03/08/2020 22.34, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> I should like to propose a more
> descriptive name for that installer item but cannot come up
> with one sufficiently short.

I dug through vim's history and I found out that these batch files were
introduced along with the nsis instaler in vim 6.0
(https://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim60.exe), and the option's
description stayed "Create .bat files for command line use" from that
version up to v8.1.0616 when the whole installer was refreshed (and the
current "Create .bat files" string was introduced).

It's not very easy to choose a better name, maybe "Add .bat files in
%SystemRoot%" might be more clear (hopefully with %SystemRoot% expanded
to its actual value - usually C:\Windows).
And the description maybe might just say, since there's only so much
space for it, something like "...so that typing 'vim', 'gvim' etc. will
launch vim from any command prompt"

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