[newbe]

Hi, I hate notepad. It mangles my Linux files and is a 25 year old program which has never been updated. Every time I double-click a file associated with it in the registry, I have to: 1. go to explorer -> 2. tools -> 3. folder_options -> ...

Hi,
I hate notepad. It mangles my Linux files and is a 25 year old program which has never been updated. Every time I double-click a file associated with it in the registry, I have to:

1. go to explorer ->
2. tools ->
3. folder_options ->
4. file_types
5. scroll down through the ~486 file types to find the right one
6. click change
7. hit browse (because my favorite editor is non-ms)
8. navigate to c:/program_files/vim/vim72
9. double-click on gvim.exe
10. check "always use the selected program ..." box
11. click OK on open_with dialog
12. click close on folder_options dialog.

There are over a dozen extensions I use and need to do this for so we are talking about hundreds of steps involved.

Is there a program out there to search for all occurrences of notepad (or textpad) in the registry's file associations and overwrite it with gvim?

I have seen other hacks on the web where you boot into safe mode, overwrite the notepad in dllcache, servicePackFiles, system32, windows, ... then hack the registry's install sources, servicepacksources, sourcepath, ... and then hack in a dozen or so registry keys with huge, raw, hex text arrays. Egad! What a convoluted kludge of engineering malpractice this architecture is!
http://www.ditii.com/2007/10/12/how-...-party-editor/

The truly sad part of this entire, unnecessary exercise is that it can all be done with 1 line in Linux:
echo "export editor=vim" >> ~/.bashrc; . ~/.bashrc

Is there a better way to do this other than brute force mousing or hacking a Perl script to search and destroy notepad?

Thank you,
BrianP