Re: OutlookVim starts the wrong gvim

On 13/12/13 06:11, Gary Johnson wrote:
> My PC at work was recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. I
> installed Vim 7.3 on it and installed the OutlookVim macro into
> Outlook. So far so good. A while later, I installed Vim 7.4 when
> it became available at the Vim Without Cream site. This continued
> to work fine as long as a gvim instance was already running, which
> happened to always be the case.
>
> Today I tried using OutlookVim from Outlook without any other gvim
> running and it opened gvim 7.3 instead of 7.4. I can't figure out
> how to get it to open gvim 7.4.
>
> * Neither Vim installation is in my PATH.
>
> * I opened Control Panel -> Default Programs -> "Associate a file
> type or protocol with a program" and found three extensions
> associated with Vim: .log, .txt and .vmb. For each of those, I
> set .../vim74/gvim.exe as the default application.
>
> * I searched the OutlookVim plugin files and did not see a specific
> version of gvim specified anywhere.
>
> * I reinstalled the OutlookVim macro into Outlook.
>
> None of that worked.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get OutlookVim to start gvim v.4 instead
> of gvim 7.3?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>

I don't know OutlookVim but there ought to be an answer.

Did you check if there were any register entries (in either
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER) associated with OutlookVim? Or
any OutlookVim preferences? Or even hard or soft links, or whatever
Windows names them, pointing from within reach of OutlookVim to the Vim
binary? If you find something pointing to Vim 7.3, change it to 7.4 (if
you can, of course, since it's "at work").

Otherwise, if nothing else avails, you could
(a) always start Vim (if not already running) together with Outlook; or
(b) arrange (I'm not sure how but I know it is possible) that invoking
Vim 7.3 would always launch your latest 7.4. (This could be seen as
"cheating", and would make Vim 7.3 unavailable.)

Best regards,
Tony.
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while
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