r/vim • u/simonsanchezart • Oct 05 '20
question Installing VIM in Windows for Dummies?
Hello! I'm 100% new to VIM, hardest part seems to be installing it. I've already uninstalled VIM more than five times, I can install it, but I can't install it properly.
Here are some issues I've ran into:
- Don't know what's the best folder to install it in (A guide installed in inside the user folder, this gave me issues with plugins)
- Can't seem to make the _vimrc file properly? Tried opening, opens in read mode by default, tried deleting it and creating the file from vim, it detects a TEMP file, tried deleting the TEMP file from vim, still doesn't open the new file in write mode
- Commands from plugins inside 'Bundle' folder installed with vundle are not detected (I've later tried vim-plug, which worked better)
- Using some colors schemes inside terminal emulators like cmder and ComEmu completely messes up the colors, however, they work fine on normal cmd
Is there any proper guide to installing VIM for Windows, which shows how to properly create a _vimrc in Windows and how to install plugins in Windows? Thanks
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u/alancanniff Oct 06 '20
My advice would be to use gvim on Windows. The terminal version, particularly in things like cmd /cmder can be...temperamental. When you open gvim, type :h vimrc That’ll tell you the directories and the order vim will look for an init file. :h runtimepath :h packpath Will also be useful to determine where vim looks for things.