Re: Registration of Vim executable on Windows

Gabriele Fava to Christian Brabandt:

> > 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.

Indeed. I thought those .bat files to were supplementary
scripts for using Vim non-interactively and did not care a
carrot about reading the detailed description. Thank you for
the explanation, Gabriele. I should like to propose a more
descriptive name for that installer item but cannot come up
with one sufficiently short.

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