I just downloaded and started using Vim so I'm still a bit confused with it. I've been watching tutorial videos and I see that I can open Vim by typing vim in command. However when I do it I get
'vim' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
Did I need to install something else? Also I want to code and compile C in vim, would I need to install a compiler?
You have to invoke Vim (or gvim, the GUI application) with the full path, e.g.
"C:\Program Files\vim\vim74\vim.exe"
The Vim installer doesn't add the location to the PATH. In Windows, you can create a shortcut (*.lnk) in your Start Menu, or re-run "C:\Program Files\vim\vim74\install.exe", which has an option to install batch files to C:\Windows, or manually add "C:\Program Files\vim\vim74" to your PATH via the Control Panel.
Vim is just a (very advanced and powerful) text editor, so it ships with syntax highlighting for most programming languages, but unlike IDEs, it doesn't come with the full toolset of compiler, linker, debugger, etc. You need to separately install that (e.g. mingw, or Microsoft's compiler from the Windows SDK, or any other).
C:\>vim somefile.txt
During Vim (for Win32) install, you have the option to install batch files for launching vim from the command-line.
make sure you install vim properly. (https://www.vim.org/download.php)
On Windows. Don't forget to set the environment variables (simply add \vim\vim**; at the end of the classpath)
Type vim at command line (gvim.exe will start the Graphic user interface software).
If you want to compile and run c program using the command line, you should download the GCC Compiler and follow the same procedure as mentioned before (The classpath thing). Then you can compile C program using gcc command.
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in the tutorial, the teacher used Linux whilst i use windows which is quite different and i don't understand why he could use vim and i cant since I've followed every instruction. here's the code he used vim first_python_program.py
if you want to use vim on Windows, just install it from the official website.
Then you can use it by opening cmd and typing vim <path_to_your_file>. (don't forget to replace <path_to_your_file> with your actual file).
I recently installed Cygwin on Windows 8.1, it works great but I can't execute file using the dot, for example "./hello.ml". I'm using the Windows's command prompt.
When I try using it, it show me that "." is not reconized. How can I make it works ?
Thanks.
You need to use the cygwin terminal or powershell instead.
The command interpreter doesn't think that your files are executable because they aren't one of the types that are recognized as binary executables. In general, Windows would use file associations from the registry to make things happen when you try to run a file. The cygwin terminal follows the unix-like convention and knows that your scripts are ml files and they are executable by using the ml interpreter, most likely from a #! at the top of your file.
I am trying to make the CoqIDE Vim plugin work on Windows 8.1. When I source the plugin from Vim, I get this error message:
coqtop.opt: command not found.
So I looked up the plugin documentation, and found the part that seems relevent:
"coqtop" should be accessible on PATH. If "coqtop" is not in your PATH, add 'let CoqIDE_coqtop = "/path/to/coqtop"' in your "~/.vimrc".
I'm not sure what this means, but I'm guessing that there is some file or directory named coqtop that must be made visible to vim. So I opened my Coq installation directory and searched for coqtop. The search hits are:
coqtop
coqtop.cmi
coqtop.1
coqtop.byte.1
coqtop.opt.1
The obvious first candidate here is coqtop. When I click it, it opens an interactive Coq console. But when I use the let CoqIDE_coqtop command to link this file to Vim and load the plugin again, I get:
C:Program Files (x86)Coq^Hincoqtop.exe: command not found.
Another thing that looks problematic is the file type. As you can see from the error message above, the coqtop file has an .exe extension, which is specific to MS-DOS and Windows. But I don't think the plugin was written to work with .exe files...
I also tried using all the other search hits as coqtop, to no avail.
Does this mean that the plugin is useless on Windows? If someone can confirm that I'll just give up and use other IDEs. But if possible I'd really, really like to keep using Vim.
I want to install some softwares such as notepad++, safari etc in silent mode using command prompt. And my OS is win2k8r2.
I placed two executables npp.6.3.3.Installer.exe and SafariStup 4.2.exe in a folder in c drive and used command line arguments as below..
c:\AllFiles>npp.6.3.3.Installer.exe -s
it executes, but shows dialog boxes that was not expected.Please help...
Each program is going to be different, some don't even support silent installations. From command line if you do yourfile.exe /? it should tell you available options.
For Notepad++, I recommend simply downloading the ZIP package (not the EXE installer), unpacking it to the desired location, and adding a Start Menu shortcut.
You don't need to install it per se.
I have installed Vim and MinGW on my machine, so I try to create Hello World then compile in in Vim and everything work fine. However when I type :make it show error 'make' not recognized as an internal or external command.
I already added variable path to C:\MinGW\bin. I want to know how to configure Vim or my machine to allow make command.
Can you confirm that there is a make.exe in C:\MinGW\bin? I seem to remember that last time I installed mingw, it was called mingw32-make.exe.
If there is no make.exe but there is a mingw32-make.exe, you'll have to change the 'makeprg' option:
:set makeprg=mingw32-make
:make