Editing Maintain multiple versions of gvim in Windows

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This is useful when you want to upgrade to the latest version of Vim but want the ability to easily switch back to an old version. I create a symbolic link called 'current' in my $VIM directory to whichever is my current install of Vim. You can create symbolic links to directories on NTFS with the linkd utility in the resource kit:
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C:\Program Files\Vim>linkd current vim70c
C:\Program Files\Vim>dir
30/03/2006 13:09 <JUNCTION> current
07/02/2006 17:27 <DIR> vim63
30/03/2006 09:38 <DIR> vim64
30/03/2006 13:08 <DIR> vim70c
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I make sure that all shortcuts and registry entries reference gvim as <code>C:\Program Files\Vim\current\gvim.exe</code>, and I can then easily move the current link around to switch versions.

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Look for "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools". There is a Linkd.exe.

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> I can then easily move the current link around to switch versions.

You could even make a batch file (in your path) for each of your versions that sets the link and then executes current/gvim.exe.

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