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| date | Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:00:04 +0200 |
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1 Uninstalling Vim on MS-Windows. |
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| 3 There are three ways to remove Vim: | |
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| 5 1. With the GUI uninstaller. | |
| 6 This is only available when Vim was installed with the self-installing | |
| 7 executable. This has a minimal number of questions. It can delete | |
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8 everything that was installed. |
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10 2. With uninstall.exe. |
| 7 | 11 This removes most installed items, but does not delete the files you |
| 12 unpacked. | |
| 13 | |
| 14 3. By hand. | |
| 15 This is a bit more work, but you can decide exactly what you want to | |
| 16 remove. For uninstalling the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry you still | |
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17 have to use uninstall.exe. |
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| 19 It's recommended to use the method that matches with how you installed Vim. | |
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20 Thus if you installed Vim by hand, delete it by hand. |
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| 22 The first two methods should be available from the Add/Remove software window | |
| 23 and the Vim entry in the Start menu. If these have been removed already, find | |
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24 "uninstall-gui.exe" or "uninstall.exe" in the Vim directory. |
| 7 | 25 Running these programs should be self-explanatory. Carefully read the |
| 26 messages to avoid deleting something you want to keep. | |
| 27 | |
| 28 Here are guidelines for removing Vim by hand: | |
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30 1. Remove the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry, if it exists. This is done by |
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31 running the uninstall.exe program. It removes the registry entries for the |
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32 "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry. You only need to run uninstall.exe when |
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33 you have installed the menu entry. You can also run uninstall.exe from the |
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34 Control panel with the Add/Remove programs application. |
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35 Note that uninstall.exe offers you the option to uninstall other items. You |
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36 can skip this. |
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| 38 2. Only if you have used the OLE version of gvim: Remove the registration of | |
| 39 this program by running "gvim -unregister" in a console window. | |
| 40 | |
| 41 3. Delete the executables. If you copied the executables to another location, | |
| 42 you will have to delete them from where you copied them to. If you don't | |
| 43 remember where they are, look in the directories from the $PATH environment | |
| 44 variable. | |
| 45 If you created .bat files when installing Vim, also search for vim.bat, | |
| 46 gvim.bat, etc. | |
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48 4. If you want to completely delete vim, and are not going to install another |
| 7 | 49 version, you can delete the vimrc files that you created. These are |
| 50 normally located in a directory like "C:\vim". If the $VIM environment | |
| 51 variable is set, it will tell the name of the directory. Normally you can | |
| 52 delete everything in this directory. Warning: You might have put some | |
| 53 files there that you would like to save. If you did remove it all, you can | |
| 54 skip the next step. | |
| 55 | |
| 56 5. Delete the distributed files. If you followed the directions, these will | |
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57 be located in a directory like "C:\vim\vim81". If the $VIM environment |
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58 variable is set, the directory will be $VIM\vim81. Delete the "vim81" |
| 7 | 59 directory and all that is in it. Warning: If you changed any of the |
| 60 distributed files, or added some of your own files, you might want to save | |
| 61 these first. But normally you would not have changed or added files here. | |
| 62 | |
| 63 6. Remove setting the $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME environment variable and adjust | |
| 64 $PATH. $VIM only needs to be removed if you are not going to install | |
| 65 another version of Vim. $VIMRUNTIME is mostly not set. Check if $PATH | |
| 66 contains the path of the vim directory. Note that $PATH may be set in | |
| 67 several places, you will have to find the right one, and only delete the | |
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68 Vim path from it. You might need to use the "System Properties" editor to |
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69 change the environment variables. You can start it by selecting |
| 7 | 70 Start/Settings/Control Panel and then "System". |
| 71 | |
| 72 7. If you added a Vim entry in the start menu, delete it. | |
| 73 | |
| 74 8. If you created icons for Vim on the desktop, delete them. | |
| 75 | |
| 76 Vim does not use .ini files. The above should remove all Vim files, except | |
| 77 the ones that you moved elsewhere yourself. |