Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer

carolus worwor@bellsouth.net
Sun Feb 9 17:24:00 GMT 2014


On 2/9/2014 8:37 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, carolus!
>
>>>> Is there some configuration that will let me open a text file in Cygwin
>>>> vim by clicking on the file in an Explorer window?
>>>
>>> There's like 5 ways to do it.
>>> What you've tried already and what your results so far?
>>>
>
>> I don't know how to pass the filename and directory from an Explorer
>> left-click to a Cygwin shell script. (I'm not a programmer, just a dumb
>> engineer.)
>
> So, vim or shell script?...
>
>
If there is no simple answer, let's just drop the subject.  I'll 
continue to open cygwin and cd to the target directory whenever I want 
to open a file in vim and happen to be in Explorer.


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