Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer

[Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]]

> 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?

The target command can be something like:

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

Where vim.sh is something like this:

#! /bin/sh
vim -- "`cygpath -u $1`"

This way you can right-click on the file, select "Send To", then "Vim".

HTH,

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI


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