Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: [cygwin tips&tricks] Shortcut to vim in "Send to" folder Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:09:37 -0700 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.9.207.201 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Tomasz Rojek wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to share with this tip with any cygwin newbie (all the > cygwin developers know it for sure :) I use a few text editors in my > daily work, today I finally ;) came to idea to have a shortcut > pointing to vim in my "Send to" right click submenu. I use this > command in a shortcut to run vim in rxvt window: > > C:\FOLDER\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -T vim -vb -sr -sl 10000 -bg > black -cr white -fg LightSteelBlue1 -j -fn > "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-14-14-m-0-iso8859-2" -e > /usr/bin/vim > > Sending a file to vim works fine, drag&dropping any file on above > shortcut opens the file in vim too. Well personally I just use XEmacs instead of vim! But really I never really understood why people *want* to have to continually have to list and enumerate all of those settings to programs like rxvt such as "-display :0 -T vim -vb -sr -sl..." instead of just listing such resources in your ~/.Xdefaults file and giving is some sort of class name. That way you don't have to respecify all those options all the time and when you get tired of that "color scheme" and/or font settings you need only change your ~/.Xdefaults and wham all your old shortcuts work, instead of having to run around changing a bunch of shortcuts and their options... -- Hermits have no peer pressure. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/