Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer

[carolus]

On 2/9/2014 4:16 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:

> Just create a shell link in your personal "Send To..." folder with specified
> command. On Windows XP, it is in "%USERPROFILE%/SendTo". Dunno about other,
> This way, even though a bit convoluted, allow you to edit ANY file with your
> chosen program. Regardless of extension, and even in absence of it, as it is
> the case for many traditional shell scripts.

   On Windows 7, %USERPROFILE$ points to my user folder.  But I get an 
"access forbidden" message if I try to open the SendTo subdirectory from 
Explorer. There is no option to right-click and elevate, and I get the 
same "access forbidden" message even if I switch to an administrator 
account. Strangely, I can open that directory from the command line, but 
the only way I know how to create a Windows link is by right-click 
drag&drop from the GUI.

>
>>> >>  I.e. just make an association to open a file with vi(m). In a usual Windows way.
>> >  The only "usual Windows way" I know is for windows executables.
> Cygwin applications are (surprize!) windows executables

But not "normal" executables in the sense that they run when you click 
on them from Explorer. Somehow you have to get into cmd.exe first.  And 
then you need to get the path and filename into vim.  This is getting 
too complicated for a nonprogrammer like myself.

Probably the subject is best dropped.  It is more a Windows problem than 
a Cygwin one, and I have been getting by with the clumsy method for the 
last ten years.  I just thought there might be an easy fix. Thanks for 
the help.




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