My preferred text editor
is
gVim, which is available for
Linux,
macOS,
MS-DOS and
Microsoft Windows
systems as well as other
operating systems.
It is
free and open-source software. I've been using personal computers since
the early days of MS-DOS and have used the
vi text editor on
which it is based for decades, so I've learned many of the
keyboard shortcuts
which make it a powerful text editor and which make it easier for me to
modify text files more quickly than I could navigating through menu entries
in a graphical
user interface (GUI). So I usually install it on Microsoft Windows systems
that I will be using regularly. You can download an installation file from
the website of the developer,
Bram Moolenaar or
on Windows 10 or later versions of Windows, you can use Microsoft's
package manager
utility,
winget. To install the application using winget, you can open a
command prompt window or
PowerShell window and issue the command winget install vim.vim.
Note: on a Windows 10 system (version 22H2),
I found that the command was not available from a command prompt or PowerShell
window with administrator privileges, only from windows opened with standard
account privileges.
C:\>winget install vim Multiple packages found matching input criteria. Please refine the input. Name Id Source --------------------------------------- Vim vim.vim.nightly winget Vim vim.vim winget Vim Cheat Sheet 9WZDNCRDMCWR msstore C:\>winget install vim.vim Found Vim [vim.vim] Version 9.2.0758 This application is licensed to you by its owner. Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages. Downloading https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases/download/v9.2.0758/gvim_9.2.0758_x64_signed.exe ██████████████████████████████ 12.7 MB / 11.7 MB Successfully verified installer hash Starting package install... Successfully installed C:\>
