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Re: Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer
- From: Balaji Venkataraman <balaji dot s dot venkataraman at gmail dot com>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:09:45 -0800
- Subject: Re: Invoking Cygwin vim from Windows Explorer
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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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