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annotate uninstal.txt @ 10214:3a6b2d4c71d6 v8.0.0007
commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/bbe917d9d465a66a29e38879c7f66df51b0b0dc3
Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Date: Wed Sep 21 22:41:24 2016 +0200
patch 8.0.0007
Problem: Vim 7.4 is still mentioned in a few places.
Solution: Update to Vim 8. (Uncle Bill, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1094)
| author | Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> |
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| date | Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:45:04 +0200 |
| parents | 6ec6b7ff2d43 |
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| 7 | 1 Uninstalling Vim on Dos and MS-Windows. |
| 2 | |
| 3 There are three ways to remove Vim: | |
| 4 | |
| 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 | |
| 8 everything that was installed. This also unregisters the VisVim.dll | |
| 9 | |
| 10 2. With uninstal.exe. | |
| 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 | |
| 17 have to use uninstal.exe. | |
| 18 | |
| 19 It's recommended to use the method that matches with how you installed Vim. | |
| 20 Thus if you installed Vim by hand, deleted it by hand. | |
| 21 | |
| 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 | |
| 24 "uninstall-gui.exe" or "uninstal.exe" in the Vim directory. | |
| 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: | |
| 29 | |
| 30 1. Remove the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry, if it exists. This will only | |
| 31 be on MS-Windows 95/98/NT. This is done by running the uninstal.exe | |
| 32 program. It removes the registry entries for the "Edit with Vim" popup | |
| 33 menu entry. You only need to run uninstal.exe when you have installed the | |
| 34 menu entry. You can also run uninstal.exe from the Control panel with the | |
| 35 Add/Remove programs application. | |
| 36 Note that uninstal.exe offers you to uninstal other items. You can skip | |
| 37 this. | |
| 38 | |
| 39 2. Only if you have used the OLE version of gvim: Remove the registration of | |
| 40 this program by running "gvim -unregister" in a console window. | |
| 41 | |
| 42 3. Delete the executables. If you copied the executables to another location, | |
| 43 you will have to delete them from where you copied them to. If you don't | |
| 44 remember where they are, look in the directories from the $PATH environment | |
| 45 variable. | |
| 46 If you created .bat files when installing Vim, also search for vim.bat, | |
| 47 gvim.bat, etc. | |
| 48 | |
| 49 4. If you completely want to delete vim, and are not going to install another | |
| 50 version, you can delete the vimrc files that you created. These are | |
| 51 normally located in a directory like "C:\vim". If the $VIM environment | |
| 52 variable is set, it will tell the name of the directory. Normally you can | |
| 53 delete everything in this directory. Warning: You might have put some | |
| 54 files there that you would like to save. If you did remove it all, you can | |
| 55 skip the next step. | |
| 56 | |
| 57 5. Delete the distributed files. If you followed the directions, these will | |
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commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/bbe917d9d465a66a29e38879c7f66df51b0b0dc3
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58 be located in a directory like "C:\vim\vim80". If the $VIM environment |
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commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/bbe917d9d465a66a29e38879c7f66df51b0b0dc3
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents:
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changeset
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59 variable is set, the directory will be $VIM\vim80. Delete the "vim80" |
| 7 | 60 directory and all that is in it. Warning: If you changed any of the |
| 61 distributed files, or added some of your own files, you might want to save | |
| 62 these first. But normally you would not have changed or added files here. | |
| 63 | |
| 64 6. Remove setting the $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME environment variable and adjust | |
| 65 $PATH. $VIM only needs to be removed if you are not going to install | |
| 66 another version of Vim. $VIMRUNTIME is mostly not set. Check if $PATH | |
| 67 contains the path of the vim directory. Note that $PATH may be set in | |
| 68 several places, you will have to find the right one, and only delete the | |
| 69 Vim path from it. You can most likely find the lines that set $PATH, $VIM | |
| 70 and/or $VIMRUNTIME in C:\autoexec.bat. Under Windows NT you might need to | |
| 71 use the "System Properties" editor to change the environment variables, if | |
| 72 they are not in the C:\autoexec.bat file. You can start it by selecting | |
| 73 Start/Settings/Control Panel and then "System". | |
| 74 | |
| 75 7. If you added a Vim entry in the start menu, delete it. | |
| 76 | |
| 77 8. If you created icons for Vim on the desktop, delete them. | |
| 78 | |
| 79 Vim does not use .ini files. The above should remove all Vim files, except | |
| 80 the ones that you moved elsewhere yourself. |