Questions tagged [microsoft-windows]
For questions specific to Vim implementations on the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Windows context menu “open with vim” symlink error
New install of Vim 8.1.1 on Windows 10 64bit. Also running cygwin.
From a Windows Explorer r-click context menu for a file, the "Edit with Vim" produces a cmd.exe window with:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\...
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Whitespace Tabs Show Differently in gVim on Windows/Linux versus MacVim on Mac OS
I am having difficulty getting MacVim to behave and look the same as gVim on Windows or Linux. Here's an example:
gVim on Windows:
MacVim on Mac OS:
These are viewing precisely the same file. The ...
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Different versions of vimrc being read [duplicate]
I have an absurd problem. Honestly, I have a hard time figuring out whether this belongs here or a Windows forum.
Using Vim on Win10, I've changed my C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\_vimrc from the awful ...
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On Windows some symbols are not displayed
I use 'DejaVu Sans Mono' as gui font both on Windows (7 and 10) and Linux. However, on Windows some characters are not displayed correctly (while many other Unicode characters are displayed normally). ...
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Why cannot I make Vim (not gVim) fullscreen?
I use Vim on windows (not gVim) because I think, that windows menu bar is ugly. So I use Vim, but I cannot fullscreen it. When I try it caps at cmd max size (1/4 size of screen) and won't be bigger.
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Vim Statusline colors not appearing
I want my vim statusline to have some color and I can't figure out why it does not with this code:
set laststatus=2
set statusline+=%1*\ %f\ %*
set statusline+=%2*\ %<%F%*
set statusline+=%2*%m%*
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Why does current/shell directory change depending whether drive-letter is used in filename?
Using VIM (v6.3) from a command-prompt (i.e. not gVIM) I'm getting different behaviour for the :shell command depending on whether I specify a drive-letter when editing a file or not.
Without Driver ...
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How to get vim on Windows to start quickly
I installed Vim 8.1 with all the default options on Windows 10. I didn't modify vimrc. It takes more than 5 seconds to launch Vim (or gvim) each time I edit a file, and has just as long of a delay ...
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How to stop Vim changing color of the empty space on its own?
I didn't know what is the best title for this question. This problem is annoying me so much.
I'm on Windows 7 and using nvim-qt.
When I search for a word in the project or for example open NERDTree ...
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Why does vim work if command file is double clicked, but not from DOS?
(Windows7-64bits-Vim8.1)
I have a problem with getting the python in Vim to work. This problem is probably caused because I do not have admin access to the machine; I can't help that.
In order to ...
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<Alt> to enter normal mode on Windows
I'm new to vim, and I find using <Esc> to enter normal mode to be slow. I'm on Windows. I seldom use the <Alt> keys (left and right) when I'm editing text. It should be convenient to use &...
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Vim 8 on Windows doesn't see plugins directory
I am using Vim 8.1 on Windows 10 and with a default package manager Vim doesn't see plugins in C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vimfiles\pack directory.
Did I put in into incorrect place?
EDIT:
It is the ...
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My gVim (8.1, Win10) does NOT invoke $VIM\_vimrc during initialization
My $VIM\_vimrc is as follows:
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin
My $HOME\_vimrc does not have this option. I was led to believe that Vim first invokes ...
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How to load vim-javascript using Vim 8 native package manager?
I am long time Vim (Windows 10, gVim 8.1) user, happy as a clam with Vim 7. I have not used any of the plugin managers, just the one-off plugin from vim.org. I went looking for plugins to help with ...
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Auto-Deleting Swaps, Backups and Undos while Quitting vim?
Cluttering Swaps and Backups that I never use are so annoying and takes up unnecessary space. Is there a way to delete them as one quits vim with :q and similar quitting commands?
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Getting Python support for gVim 8.1 (Windows 10)
As an extension (follow-up question) of the answer here:
If you type :version, you should see +python/dyn and +python3/dyn. On Windows, this means that Vim is compiled to dynamically load the ...
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Can not use mouse to switch window and resize window on Windows with cmder
I am using Neovim on Windows with Cmder terminal. Everything works quite well except that it seems that I can not switch windows and resize window using my mouse even though I have set mouse=a in my ...
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Change $HOME before it gets accessed
I'm using vim 8.1 on windows.
The IT department has set $HOME to a slow network drive.
Every time a file gets written to $HOME vim slows down.
I have $VIM/vimrc with the following content.
let $HOME ...
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Why does setting runtimepath do nothing?
I'm trying to adjust my vimrc to be portable and also run under Gvim 8 on Windows 10. I use Vundle as my package manager and it works perfectly on my Ubuntu machine. However, on Windows, it won't load....
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Requesting aliased :guifont rendering on Windows
Non-AA font rendering seems available everywhere except for Windows.
In MacVim, this is possivle via noantialias.
When using GTK2 front-end, the same can be achieved by adding antialias=false to the ...
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How to install Vim 8.1 Silently on Windows?
I am trying to install gvim81.exe on multiple computers. The /s switch isn't working and /? doesn't give any results. Does anyone know how to silently install this version?
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(Windows 10) Set Vim as Default Text Editor AND use with NERDTree
My answer in https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/18064/19950 shows the current predicament I face, where I used cmd.exe and the following code
ftype VimFile="C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim81\gvim.exe"
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How to set vim as the default Text editor?
I'm trying to set gVim to be the default text editor on Windows but it won't work. It works with notepad++, editor... but not with Vim. Any ideas how to fix it?
Screenshot: http://prntscr.com/lm069a
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mapping does not work even if I have set it up in config file
I am using Neovim on Windows using Cmder console emulator. I find that using [NUM]<Ctrl-6> to change to buffer [NUM] does not work on Windows. Following discussions here. I have set up a mapping:...
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Why can't I paste commands into vi?
I've been using vi for 40 years. A week ago I upgraded; Disaster struck!
The upgrade was to
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Mar 4 2018 23:38:28)
I run this on xterm under Cygwin (...
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How do I clear Neovim window after exiting Neovim on Window 10
On Linux, when I exit Neovim, the content in the Neovim window is cleared. But on Windows 10, when I exit Neovim, the content is still shown and is not cleared, leaving a lot of empty space (see image ...
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Why Backspace key do not work in insert mode in shell file by default in Cygwin?
I am using cygwin to run "linux command line" on windows 10. But here, backspace key doesn't work in insert mode. I had to edit my .vimrc file by setting "nocompatible and "bs=2" to make it work (by ...
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Has nvim ever worked on windows for anyone?
Neovim from the command line works great in Linux, and I have been using it as a drop in replacement for vim.
However, I am forced to work with windows (7) at my workplace. I am using vim8 which ...
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Changing the vim color scheme only highlights lines of text?
I'm a big noob to vim here. I was trying to change the colorscheme of vim by editing the .vimrc file, but as I was playing around with different color schemes (ayu and gruvbox, for example) I noticed ...
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24-bit / 256 colorscheme in Windows console
I'm using 64-bit Vim 8.1.0428 on Windows 10 release 1803.
The Windows 10 console now has 24-bit colours, and Vim 8 has been patched to handle 24-bit colours in the Windows console (i.e. using vim.exe ...
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How to un-silent exec in vim only if there is an error?
I have a few hotkeys mapped in my .vimrc (see below) for compiling and running autohotkey scripts but I can either be annoyed by the quest for the any key or I can run them silent and be unaware if ...
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opening powershell from inside vim
I want to run powershell from vim and I have achieved it using the following mapping:
map <leader>cd :cd %:p:h<cr>:silent !powershell<cr>
The problem is that I can't do anything ...
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Run command to disable a plugin in modeline
System: gvim 8.1 1-116 / windows10
A file that I'd like to use modeline (enabled): # vim: ft=python but disable ale plugin that will trigger on save - the file contains some python codes.
Command ...
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Revert effect of source $VIMRUNTIME\mswin.vim
On Windows, Vim does source $VIMRUNTIME\mswin.vim in its system-wide config and remaps many keys.
I'd like to have default Vim key bindings but I don't want to touch system-wide config. How do I do ...
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How to check if my .vim/buflist.txt file is empty or contains whitespace(s) in _vimrc
How to check if my .vim/buflist.txt file is empty or contains whitespace(s) in _vimrc of my gVim on Windows 10?
I tried this:
let BufferListFile = $HOME . "/.vim/buflist.txt"
echo BufferListFile
" ...
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How to add “Edit with gVim Easy” context menu item in Windows 10
I originally just wanted to change the context menu item:
Edit with Vim
to
Edit with gVim Easy
and adjust the respective command appropriately.
But since I found out, some DLL is responsible ...
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Maximizing gVim on Windows 10 while also restoring all open files / tabs
On Windows 10, I installed gVim 8.1, so far I have made the following progress to make it usable for me:
I made changes directly to _vimrc file, in spite I know there is also a gVim specific ...
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Compile vim with python3 support in Windows
I'm used to Ubuntu and know how to compile and edit vim. But how can i compile vim with python3 support on windows ?
Prefer to do it from the terminal. But i don't mind if i need to do it with miniGW ...
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How to adjust gVim to my HiDPI display scaling on Windows 10?
Being a user of GUI editors (mostly Sublime Text) and one simple CLI editor (nano), and just having gVim (the GUI version of vim) installed on my Windows 10, I can't figure out how to adjust this ...
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Extended ASCII characters changed upon opening Vim in different shell
Specifically, I have encountered this issue with the lowercase a with an umlaut ä and the lowercase scharfes s ß. Their (extended) ASCII values are 0xDF and 0xE4, respectively:
This can be seen, in ...
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How to change gVim icon on Windows?
When open gvim, there is a small icon Vim in the title plus buffer name.
I'd like to be able to hack anything about vim, including being able to change this gvim's icon. Is there a way to do that?
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error output when using commands proxied via WSL (asyncrun plugin)
I have wsl - ubuntu installed under Windows 10. Some ubuntu's commands are proxied to use in cmd by create .bat files and add them to PATH environment of windows10, pattern like following:
@echo off
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How do I pass a full filepath to a function in a Vim plug-in?
I have an exe program that checks for certain errors in a text file.
I want to create a shortcut (like \+M) to run that exe file against the text file.
My exe file's path is C:\Users\xyz\Documents\...
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How to create an Edit-with-Vim context menu entry for Vim 8.1 on Windows 10
The Explorer context menu entry does not get created by the installer. Windows 10 Pro v1803 (64-bit).
What I have already tried:
Installed Vim 8.1 using the stock Windows installer https://ftp.nluug....
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Cannot find color scheme error in Neovim
I installed Neovim on Windows 8.1 using Chocolatey.
But the problem is I cannot see any color scheme as shown in the tutorials.
I have cloned a repo from GitHub to ~/.config/nvim/colors/ and it has ...
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How to use WSL's bash shell as default terminal of gvim/windows 10?
gvim 8 1-26 / windows 10
I'd like to use Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL)'s bash shell as a gvim's terminal instead of cmd.
So if I type in command potion of gvim: :!.\test.sh, it will echo result ...
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Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
I am new to vim. As much as I love it, there seem to be a lot of bugs or errors every time I try doing something.
I am unable to run the plugin "browserlink.vim" (https://github.com/jaxbot/...
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How to run/debug ahk (AutoHotScripts) scripts using Gvim, vim
How to execute ahk (AutoHotScripts) scripts using Gvim. Let say I have interpreter:
"C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe" /ErrorStdOut "d:\ahk\myscript.ahk" 2>"Syntax-Error Log.txt"
While ...
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init.vim cannot be found
I hope this question is a duplicate one because I have already tried to find init.vim inside the nvim folder but I am unable to locate the file.
Also, would I have to create it explicitly or would it ...
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Does Windows GUI Vim perform font substitution for glyphs unavailable in current font?
MacVim specifically (if obliquely) mentions font substitution, and I've found evidence online that GTK2 gVim does too.
But does Windows gvim?
N.B. I'm already aware of the 'guifontwide' setting.
