patch 8.1.1159: MS-Windows: with a silent (un)install $VIM/_vimrc is removed commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/a8d22e3a40483cd1fa9c6e45dcf383f49f16833a Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Apr 12 21:29:33 2019 +0200 patch 8.1.1159: MS-Windows: with a silent (un)install $VIM/_vimrc is removed Problem: MS-Windows: with a silent (un)install $VIM/_vimrc is removed. Solution: Don't delete _vimrc in silent mode. (Ken Takata, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/4242)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!