GVIM: How to pass in multiple arguments via a file under windows

Question

Is anyone aware of a command line option or a way to pass in a file to gvim which will use the contents of that file as a list of arguments?

Achieving this without having to populate argv with a list of files.

The problem is that vim is a unix tool which by default assumes that a list of files would be piped in, if there are say 1000 files that need to be opened, however in the windows world there is a limit to how many arguments you can have on the command line. The way to do this on a windows command line is to have a file which contains all the arguments you wish to pass onto the program. I am wondering if gvim provides such an option.

Note: This is to invoke gvim in a windows compatible way ie avoid using extremely long argument lists

Answer 1

A simple solution:

1. list your files in files ,

    file1 file2 file3 

2. open Vim with the command below,

    $ vim -c next `cat files`