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Re: chere suggestion


On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Cary Jamison wrote:

> Dave wrote:
> > Dave Korn wrote:
> >> On 15 February 2006 17:05, Cary Jamison wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was just wondering how you get programs added to the Windows
> >>> Explorer 'Open with...' menu, and thought this might be a good
> >>> addition to chere.  I would like to add xemacs, gvim, notepad,
> >>> etc., to this menu.
> >>
> >>   This is nothing to do with cygwin.  Use the folder options/file
> >> types dialog from windows explorer, same as you would for any other
> >> file type you wanted to open with any other application.
>
> By the same argument, you could say chere has nothing to do with cygwin,
> just add your own action to the folder options...
>
> But, I still can't see how to do this.  Maybe I'm missing something obvious.
> I can associate a file type, say 'TXT' with an 'open' action that starts
> emacs, for example, but how do I get the submenu with a list of possible
> programs to open with?

FWIW, I use the "Send To" menu with the following shortcut for vi:

C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/rxvt.exe -display :0 -T vim -vb -sr -sl 10000 -bg black -cr white -fg LightSteelBlue1 -j -fn "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-14-14-m-0-iso8859-2" -e /usr/bin/vim

(I used to have more args there, but run now has a 20-argument limit --
sigh!).

> > That said I proposed something similar a while back on cygwin-apps
> > with no take up.
> >
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-11/msg00274.html
>
> Ah, yes, that's exactly the kind of issues I'm looking at.  I should
> have known someone else had already thought of it!

Dave, I guess this looks to me like the "support" you were looking for...
Care to proceed with this?  You might want to open a donations page. :-)
	Igor
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