gVim Portable for Windows

I usually rely on gVim to edit text documents and HTML files on Microsoft Windows systems. I prefer it to Notepad, because of all of the capabilities it offers, though I think you need to familiarize yourself with its commands before being able to take advantage of those capabilities. I wanted an alternative to Notepad on a Microsoft Windows 10 system on which I didn't have administrator access to install software. I installed GNU nano, but I wanted to be able to use gVim as well. Fortunately, a portable version of the software is available from the PotableApps.com website at gVim Portable.

When you double-click on the downloaded .exe file to start the installation of the program, you will be prompted to select a language for the installer. After you select the language, the installation wizard will appear.

Udemy Generic Category (English)120x600

gVim Portable wizard

You can then select the installation location.

gVim Portable install location

You should then see a "gVim Portable has been installed on your device" window.

gVim Porable install completed

You can then run the editor by double-clicking on the gVimPortable.exe file you should find in the installation location.

gVim

The 8.0.69 version of gVim used 31.2 MB (32,730,685 bytes) on the system on which I installed it. The Message Digest 5 (MD5) and Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA) hash codes for the gVimPorable.exe file are listed below:

MD5 0574c9d5afa911c283e29fc0864e5810
SHA1 e623049266e4d9daaaec92c6336d1ea9f91d79d1
SHA256 95a8d3c5947cea8d9d313c04cd7d36526aa7a0336e12baaf11b24e5a66eb5ce9

The VirusTotal analysis is at gVimPortable.exe (PDF) - noe of the 61 antivirus products used by VirusTotal reported any issues with the executable file. When I scanned the gVimPortable_8.0.069.paf.exe file used to install the portable version of gVim, no issues were reported with it either - see gVimPortable_8.0.069.paf.exe (PDF). The MD5 and SHA checksums for it are listed below:

MD5 889d242c1eaf95cb0138065e6d585e97
SHA1 0bedd8253aac52dbda9ccf64be422bf04bbad414
SHA256 bad5399786500ac0fdf12343a8b64e901278c4b497068265bd79daaeb5144936

Related articles:

  1. GNU nano text editor for Windows