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You can also install Vim in the "Send To" menu:
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1. Start a Windows Explorer
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2. Navigate to your sendto directory:
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- Windows NT: %windir%\profiles\%user%\sendto (e.g.
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- "c:\winnt\profiles\mattha\sendto")
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Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\SendTo
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Windows Vista: C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo .
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3. Right-click in the file pane and select New->Shortcut
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4. Follow the shortcut wizard, using the full path to VIM/GVIM.
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When you 'send a file to Vim', Vim changes to that file's directory. Note,
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- however, that any long directory names will appear in their short (MS-Windows)
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- form. This is a limitation of the Windows "Send To" mechanism.
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+ however, that any long directory names will appear in their short (MS-DOS)
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+ form on some Windows versions. This is a limitation of the Windows "Send To"
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+ mechanism.
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*notepad*
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You could replace notepad.exe with gvim.exe, but that has a few side effects.
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Vim Shell Extension
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Vim\Gvim
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path {path} \gvim.exe
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- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\vim 5.6
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- DisplayName Vim 5.6 : Edit with Vim popup menu entry
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+ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\vim 8.2
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+ DisplayName Vim 8.2 : Edit with Vim popup menu entry
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UninstallString {path} \uninstall.exe
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Replace {path} with the path that leads to the executable.
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe\shell\edit]
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\gvim.exe\shell\edit\command]
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- @="c:\\vim\\vim62 \\gvim.exe \"%1\""
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+ @="c:\\vim\\vim82 \\gvim.exe \"%1\""
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList\gvim.exe]
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList\gvim.exe]
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----------------------------------------------------------
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- Change the "c:\\vim\\vim62 " bit to where gvim.exe is actually located.
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+ Change the "c:\\vim\\vim82 " bit to where gvim.exe is actually located.
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To uninstall this run the Vim uninstall program or manually delete the
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registry entries with "regedit".
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