Jacob Stanley « Blog
Written by Jacob Stanley on July 28, 2010
I’ve been using the 64-bit version of Vim so that I could get the ‘Edit with Vim’ context menu in Windows Explorer. This was all fine and good except that I wanted to use something that requires vim to be compiled with +ruby. The vanilla x86 gVim72 installer you can get at vim.org is compiled with +ruby, but it doesn’t have the explorer context menu on a 64-bit computer :(
The solution was to install the x86 vim from vim.org, then take the gvimext.dll from the 64-bit vim, and apply the following registry tweaks.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Vim\Gvim]
"path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Vim\\vim72\\gvim.exe"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99}]
@="Vim Shell Extension"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Vim\\vim72\\gvimext64.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
To save anyone else the hassle of getting the bits you need from the 64-bit vim, I’ve zipped up everything you need (gvimext64.zip). Just extract it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim72 and run the gvimext64.reg file.