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1 Uninstalling Vim on Dos and MS-Windows.
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3 There are three ways to remove Vim:
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5 1. With the GUI uninstaller.
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6 This is only available when Vim was installed with the self-installing
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7 executable. This has a minimal number of questions. It can delete
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8 everything that was installed. This also unregisters the VisVim.dll
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9
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10 2. With uninstal.exe.
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11 This removes most installed items, but does not delete the files you
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12 unpacked.
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14 3. By hand.
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15 This is a bit more work, but you can decide exactly what you want to
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16 remove. For uninstalling the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry you still
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17 have to use uninstal.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, deleted it by hand.
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22 The first two methods should be available from the Add/Remove software window
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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 "uninstal.exe" in the Vim directory.
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25 Running these programs should be self-explanatory. Carefully read the
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26 messages to avoid deleting something you want to keep.
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28 Here are guidelines for removing Vim by hand:
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29
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30 1. Remove the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry, if it exists. This will only
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31 be on MS-Windows 95/98/NT. This is done by running the uninstal.exe
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32 program. It removes the registry entries for the "Edit with Vim" popup
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33 menu entry. You only need to run uninstal.exe when you have installed the
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34 menu entry. You can also run uninstal.exe from the Control panel with the
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35 Add/Remove programs application.
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36 Note that uninstal.exe offers you to uninstal other items. You can skip
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37 this.
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38
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39 2. Only if you have used the OLE version of gvim: Remove the registration of
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40 this program by running "gvim -unregister" in a console window.
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41
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42 3. Delete the executables. If you copied the executables to another location,
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43 you will have to delete them from where you copied them to. If you don't
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44 remember where they are, look in the directories from the $PATH environment
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45 variable.
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46 If you created .bat files when installing Vim, also search for vim.bat,
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47 gvim.bat, etc.
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48
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49 4. If you completely want to delete vim, and are not going to install another
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50 version, you can delete the vimrc files that you created. These are
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51 normally located in a directory like "C:\vim". If the $VIM environment
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52 variable is set, it will tell the name of the directory. Normally you can
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53 delete everything in this directory. Warning: You might have put some
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54 files there that you would like to save. If you did remove it all, you can
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55 skip the next step.
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56
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57 5. Delete the distributed files. If you followed the directions, these will
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58 be located in a directory like "C:\vim\vim54". If the $VIM environment
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59 variable is set, the directory will be $VIM\vim54. Delete the "vim54"
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60 directory and all that is in it. Warning: If you changed any of the
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61 distributed files, or added some of your own files, you might want to save
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62 these first. But normally you would not have changed or added files here.
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63
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64 6. Remove setting the $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME environment variable and adjust
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65 $PATH. $VIM only needs to be removed if you are not going to install
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66 another version of Vim. $VIMRUNTIME is mostly not set. Check if $PATH
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67 contains the path of the vim directory. Note that $PATH may be set in
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68 several places, you will have to find the right one, and only delete the
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69 Vim path from it. You can most likely find the lines that set $PATH, $VIM
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70 and/or $VIMRUNTIME in C:\autoexec.bat. Under Windows NT you might need to
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71 use the "System Properties" editor to change the environment variables, if
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72 they are not in the C:\autoexec.bat file. You can start it by selecting
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73 Start/Settings/Control Panel and then "System".
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75 7. If you added a Vim entry in the start menu, delete it.
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77 8. If you created icons for Vim on the desktop, delete them.
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79 Vim does not use .ini files. The above should remove all Vim files, except
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80 the ones that you moved elsewhere yourself.
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