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I was perusing the code here after seeing this on lobste.rs, and I was very confused by the following line,

I don’t have a Windows computer handy to see if there’s anything going on that I’m missing, but based on the comment it sounds like this just creates an empty file, a la touch on *nix. If this indeed is what’s going on, copy nul > file is a more supported (and potentially faster) way to do just that.

Occasionally, I like to have two gui windows (e.g. multi monitor setup or multiple OSX spaces/Linux workspaces).
Therefore, gui window 1 has a certain set of files open and also the gui window 2. both sets are disjoint.

For simplicity, gui window 1 has file1 and gui window 2 has file2.

I would like to run following commands:

$ vimer +20 file1
$ vimer +40 file2

which should open the correct gui window and reposition the cursor.

My use case is a latex setup using synctex. That means the pdf viewer is re-opening/focusing gvim/mvim and moves appproximately the cursor to the line where you have clicked in the pdf viewer.

Do you think you would like to extend your script to handle multiple gvim servers?

See also
https://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/wiki/TeX_and_PDF_Synchronization/#tex-pdf-synchronization
and possibly helpful
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4131

Hi

Is it possible to update the script to take the vim instance name as an argument where the file would be opened.

If that can be supported that would be super awesome.

Thanks in advance

If gvim is run as a protable application, say installed by scoop, for users without admin rights to access the HKCM branch of the registry, then the vim executable cannot be found. How about a check using where such as

IF DEFINED EDITOR (
  IF EXIST "%EDITOR%" (
    SET E=%EDITOR%
  ) ELSE (
    where /q %EDITOR%
    IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (
      SET E=%EDITOR%
    )
  )
)
IF NOT DEFINED E (
  where /q vim
  IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
    SET E=start /b notepad
  ) ELSE (
    SET E=vim
  )
)

to look for it in the (user's) %PATH%?