patch 8.0.1616: Win32: shell commands in the GUI open a new console commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f05fa378229004fb64493b411b864709ce7da453 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Mar 18 19:29:34 2018 +0100 patch 8.0.1616: Win32: shell commands in the GUI open a new console Problem: Win32: shell commands in the GUI open a new console. Solution: Use a terminal window for interactive use when 'guioptions' contains "!".

@echo off
rem batch file to start Vim with less.vim.
rem Read stdin if no arguments were given.
rem Written by Ken Takata.

if "%1"=="" (
  vim --cmd "let no_plugin_maps = 1" -c "runtime! macros/less.vim" -
) else (
  vim --cmd "let no_plugin_maps = 1" -c "runtime! macros/less.vim" %*
)