1- Uninstalling Vim on Dos and MS-Windows.
1+ Uninstalling Vim on MS-Windows.
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33There are three ways to remove Vim:
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2828Here are guidelines for removing Vim by hand:
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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.
30+ 1. Remove the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry, if it exists. This is done by
31+ running the uninstal.exe program. It removes the registry entries for the
32+ "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry. You only need to run uninstal.exe when
33+ you have installed the menu entry. You can also run uninstal.exe from the
34+ Control panel with the Add/Remove programs application.
3635 Note that uninstal.exe offers you the option to uninstal other items. You
3736 can skip this.
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5554 skip the next step.
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57565. Delete the distributed files. If you followed the directions, these will
58- be located in a directory like "C:\vim\vim80 ". If the $VIM environment
59- variable is set, the directory will be $VIM\vim80 . Delete the "vim80 "
57+ be located in a directory like "C:\vim\vim81 ". If the $VIM environment
58+ variable is set, the directory will be $VIM\vim81 . Delete the "vim81 "
6059 directory and all that is in it. Warning: If you changed any of the
6160 distributed files, or added some of your own files, you might want to save
6261 these first. But normally you would not have changed or added files here.
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6665 another version of Vim. $VIMRUNTIME is mostly not set. Check if $PATH
6766 contains the path of the vim directory. Note that $PATH may be set in
6867 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
68+ Vim path from it. You might need to use the "System Properties" editor to
69+ change the environment variables. You can start it by selecting
7370 Start/Settings/Control Panel and then "System".
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75727. If you added a Vim entry in the start menu, delete it.
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