external vim editor on windows

[silverqx]

Hi, I'm not able to setup up an external vim editor on windows. I'm using mc 4.8.24.

mc correctly picks up EDITOR env. variable, but the final command looks like this:

vim /C E:/another_dir/file.txt

So vim tries to open two files:

• first file or in this case it tries to open /C folder at a current drive
• and second file E:/another_dir/file.txt

The second problem is that file is not quoted, so when the command line looks like this:

vim /C E:/some dir/file.txt

Then it tries to open two folders and one file dir/file.txt.

I have also tried to add External parameters as is described in man pages:

[External editor or viewer parameters]
vim=%filename +%lineno

But without success, it looks like mc ignores this section, in the manpages is written: "The option name should be equal to the name (full pathname) of external editor or viewer."

I have tried various combinations.

The problem is also described here:
​https://superuser.com/questions/1119591/defining-midnight-commanders-external-editor-on-windows

Anyway, it is not crucial whether [External editor or viewer parameters] works or not on windows, would be absolutely enough to correctly generate external editor command on windows.
That means remove that /C parameter from the beginning or replace it with -C because startup parameters for vim have to start with a dash and quote filepaths.

[andrew_b]

Windows is not supported.

[silverqx]

Ok thank you for your reply @andrew_b

[zaytsev]

I wanted to answer on StackOverflow?, but I need reputation to comment. Your answer is wrong - you just contacted the wrong people. We are the maintainers of mc for Unix - there is a separate project to port mc to Windows. We do not provide support for Windows port. You should have contacted the author of this port instead. Maybe he can fix it.

[silverqx]

Ok, thx for the clarification, I didn't know that there is a dedicated project for windows support, I'm going to post it there, I'm supposing that this is the right location ​https://github.com/adamyg/mcwin32.