Tip #328: Vim in Microsoft Visual Foxpro

You can tell MS VFP to use an external
editor for editing project files.
To tell MS VFP to use Vim:

start regedit
locate
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
  \Microsoft
   \VisualFoxPro
    \5.0
     \Options]

and create a new item
TEDIT
with string content
"/N C:\Progra~1\vim\vim61\gvim.exe"
(or whatever your path to Vim happens to be.)

This will not replace the internal VFP
editor for such things as modifying the
"click method" for a button
(unfortunately),
but when you modify a program, VFP will
fire up gvim.

Start MS VFP, start Help and
look for TEDIT. ;-)

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