Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer

carolus worwor@bellsouth.net
Mon Feb 10 00:49:00 GMT 2014


On 2/9/2014 12:49 PM, carolus wrote:
> On 2/9/2014 11:35 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>>> If there is no simple answer,
>>
>> Maybe not as simple, but...
>>
>> What about adding a "Vim" destination to your "Send To..." folder
>> under your Windows profile?
>
> Thanks, but maybe not simple enough for me. I find a SendTo shortcut
> under my username, but can't open it. Right clicking does not give me an
> administrator option. As you can see, I don't know much about Windows,
> which is why I like Cygwin.
>
>
>
I discovered that I can get into that directory from the command line 
even though it is forbidden from the GUI!  But there are no simple files 
in it that I could use as syntax examples.  So what more do I have to 
add to the line

C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c C:\cygwin\bin\vim.sh

to make sendto work?


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