I wanted to use Vim on the command prompt, but it gave
vim is not recognized as an internal or external command
I tried searching for a solution and found that I should edit the user specific environment variable 'path', but it still gives the same error. What can be the solution?
After its installation, you can use it by opening the command prompt (cmd) then typing “vim”. This will open the vim application. There are two modes available in this editor, one is the insert mode where you can insert anything you like then there is a command mode which is used to perform different functions.
Vim is a powerful code editor. So powerful that both Linux and Mac have it installed by default. But if you are using Windows as your operating system, you will need to install Vim separately. Fortunately, Microsoft makes it very easy to install Vim and get it running on your PC.
On Unix-like operating systems, vim, which stands for "Vi Improved", is a text editor. It can be used for editing any kind of text and is especially suited for editing computer programs.
Install vim again and make sure to check the box of "create .bat files" option when installing
Go to the file location, and double click install.exe. That will open cmd.
If it asks you "Do you want to uninstall", type N and then type D.
Actually I selected 'browse directory' and selected the location of Vim i.e.,
C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim
You need to locate the directory that contains vim.exe
. If you use the default installation options (and latest available version), that would be C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim80
.
Note that there's also a 64-bit version of Vim for Windows.
It's a problem of the installer on Windows 10!
The installer tries to write some files into C:\WINDOWS, but if you install without administrator privileges, those files cannot be written. However, the rest of the install works and so you think everything is fine.
Try to restart install.exe as an administrator!
unistall everythingn then follow the guide on: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/install-vim-text-editor-on-windows and make sure to get the full installation it will work in the CMD after that make sure to run it as admin i had the same issue
When installing, put it to vim itself to create the bat path file on windows. This was my solution to this problem
First, open Power shell and set alias for canonized commands (Windows 7 and above):
$ Set-alias vi "\path\to\gvim.exe"
$ Set-alias vim "\path\to\gvim.exe"
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