Re: Registration of Vim executable on Windows

On 06/08/2020 23.18, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> 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.

I apologise for replying so late, I missed your message and then forgot
about the thread

Yes, I agree with you, "Make Vim available on command line" sounds good.

By the way, for the developers, I also noticed that the italian
translation of the option is wrong and very hard to understand (I think
a correct one, for the current descriptions, would be "Crea file .bat"
and "Crea file .bat per varianti di Vim nella directory di Windows, per
utilizzo da riga di comando").


Kind regards,

Gabriele

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