Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer

Balaji Venkataraman balaji.s.venkataraman@gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 01:26:00 GMT 2014


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Lee wrote:
> I'm surprised this worked, but
> right click on a .txt file in explorer, select open with, choose program
> click on "browse", navigate to c:\cygwin\bin (or wherever you
> installed cygwin), double-click on vi.exe

This solution works (I'm surprised too) - and seems to be the simplest
of all suggestions so far. Thanks.

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