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Created: January 21, 2004 Complexity: basic Author: David Risner Minimum version: 6.0 Karma: 13/8 Imported from: Tip#642

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

In your vimrc add: 

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

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

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