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Vim/Cream as the Default Internet Explorer Editor

Microsoft has purposely built some obstinate barricades into its Windows Internet Explorer which require some gymnastics to use a third party text editor as its default editor or source viewer. Fortunately, some clever individuals have created some registry updates and other tips to work around the situation. They are provided here in hopes that you are able to use them, but they did not originate from the Cream project and we make no claim to understanding how they work. We're merely making them available.

Windows 95

Disclaimer -- These registry tools are for advanced users only! They automatically modify your Windows registry, something that even Microsoft has trouble doing correctly. We can provide absolutely no guarantee that they will work at all, and may even completely destroy your entire system and data! You use these tools at your own risk!

You can download them all in this single zip package: ie.zip (4K).

Once you have them unpacked, don't double-click on them yet! Open each one in a text editor and manually configure their internal pathing according to the comments in each (their just text/ASCII files). Sorry for the lack of documentation here, but you need to look at them first before just blindly installing them. They are configured in the most common configuration for gVim 6.1, but you must verify them for your system because no two systems are the same.

The files re-work Internet Explorer so that gVim is used in the following menus:

  • File... Edit
    • ie-editor-install.reg -- Enables
    • ie-editor-uninstall.reg -- Removes
  • View... Source
    • ie-viewsource-install.reg -- Enables
    • ie-viewsource-uninstall.reg -- Removes
    • ie-viewsource.vbs -- Script referred to by registry setting.
Notes
  • Running the registry (.reg) files from a directory path that contains a space will cause it to fail. If you continue to have problems, just put them in C:\ (or usually on your desktop) and try them again.

Windows 2000

Adjustments for Windows 2000 are less hazardous than those for Windows 95.

  • In Windows Explorer, find your "Folder Options" menu item. (It's different on different systems, either View... Preferences or Tools...)
  • Pick "File Types"
  • Find the .HTM option. (.HTML isn't necessary)
  • Select that you wish to modify it. (Again, different wording on different systems.)
  • Change the "Edit" option for the .HTM file type to point to gvim.exe. Make sure that you leave the "%1" option. The final entry should look something like:
    "C:\Program Files\vim\vim60\gvim.exe" "%1"
  • Now in Internet Explorer, go under Tools.Options, Program tab and select Vim as your HTML editor.