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For questions specific to Vim implementations on the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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How do I save a read-only file in Vim for Windows?

As on other vi/vim versions, you can use :w! to force the write, as long as you have permissions to override the read-only property. For example, if you have set the file as read-only, the above will …
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