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basic Tip #642: Windows: Get K to not display a DOS box that needs closing

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created:   January 21, 2004 17:37      complexity:   basic
author:   David Risner      as of Vim:   6.0

To get the K command to open a Windows program without creating DOS box that needs to be closed you can do the following:

In your _vimrc add the following:

map K yiw:exec "silent !".&kp.;" ".@0<CR>

You can then set the keywordprg (abbreviated kp above) to the program you want to run.

Thanks to Jacob Lerner, Tim Chase, and Suresh Govindachar for coming up with this.

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