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gVim is the GUI version of Vim (opposed to Vim running in a terminal emulator). It behaves exactly the same, but has additional graphical features.

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Can I still use console vim if I install a GUI version?

Also, yes the GUI version is called "gvim", and can be launched either with gvim or vim -g From :help -g *-g* -g Start Vim in GUI mode. See |gui|. … Mostly you can run the GUI version of Vim with: gvim [options] [files...] The X11 version of Vim can run both in GUI and in non-GUI mode. See |gui-x11-start|. …
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How to have a buffer takes 1/4 of a window and another takes all the rest?

You can use the &columns setting and some math to achieve this. Do you want to resize your existing splits, or make a new split at the right ratios? Since it's not entirely clear from your question, h …
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Vim 8.0 console on Windows 7 opens with no menu bar

You have probably been using Gvim before. For reference, here is what Gvim looks like on windows with all default settings: This does have a menu, and it can be configured with guioptions. … If you installed vim in the default location, you can find gvim at C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim80\gvim.exe …
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Make gvim show Q letter (character)

Something in your .vimrc or plugins is mapped to Q. Run :iunmap Q After sourcing your .vimrc, and that should fix it for you. If that works, you can make this permanent by adding that to the end o …
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soft linewrap width

Unfortunately, this is not possible. There are many many ways to configure how a wrap should occur, such as with textwidth and wrapmargin, but these are only for hardwraps, not softwraps. The only way …
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How to create or modify vim commands?

What does "mapping" mean in this case, and what are the advantages between the two approaches? It means that when you press Q, vim reacts as if you had typed gqip. The advantage of this is that y …
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Vim search and replace "/" only from string between round bracket

It's not perfect since you have to run it multiple times to get every slash, but that's not too big of a problem: :%s/(.*\zs\/\ze.*)/./g This will replace one slash inside of parenthesis with a dot …
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