Re: Registration of Vim executable on Windows

Gabriele Fava:

> 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 re-
> freshed (and the current "Create .bat files"
> string was introduced).

Thanks for the reasearch, Gabriele!

> 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 de-
> scription 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"

It is a hard problem in English compostion, indeed.
Maybe say something more abstract:

1. Make Vim available on command line
2. Register Vim for command-line invocaton

and let the Description tell the implementation de-
tails, that it means putting .bat files in
C:\Windows ? I for one should prefer it that way,
because this wording would not confuse me.

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