Re: Registration of Vim executable on Windows

On 03/08/2020 19.50, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> You can or you cannot? I believe the vim installer adds a vim.bat or
> gvim.bat file to C:\windows\system32

It adds various .bat files, among which vim.bat and gvim.bat, to
C:\Windows, which by default is included in the %PATH%.

It is indeed quite unusual and if you're not aware or have forgotten
about the files it's not very easy to find out what's going on.

However the installer mentions them clearly (currently the option is
called "Create .bat files", with a description "Create .bat files for
Vim variants in the Windows directory for command line use"), and indeed
they are not added by the default installation, you have to toggle the
option manually or choose the "Full" installation.

Older installers though did not have the description, so it was harder
to understand what the option did.

And in any case you'll probably forget about the whole thing after a few
months (I did)


Kind regards,

Gabriele

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