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Why does gVim easy not work on win 10?
The answer seems to be (for me at least), that if you hit Win to open the Start Menu and then type gvim, the first option is actually gVim Easy not gVim. If you launch gVim (as opposed to gVim Easy) then ESC works as expected.
Why is gVim not in my path list?
It’ll create several .bat files in C:\\Windows\\: This is because gvim.exe is not in your PATH list. If you know which directory gvim.exe resides, add this directory to your PATH list.
Why does ESC not work in gvim 8.0?
If you launch gVim (as opposed to gVim Easy) then ESC works as expected. I guess the “modeless” in ‘Easy Mode’ means there aren’t normal (command) or insert modes, so there’s no need to use ESC to switch between them. I had the same issue with gVim 8.0.
How can I get Vim on Windows to behave as on Linux?
The easiest way to get around this is to create a _vimrc files in your home directory (Note that Windows version of vim uses _vimrc instead of .vimrc ). As you can see in :h vimrc, vim looks for vimrc in several locations and only uses the first one it finds while ignoring the rest. The one in the home directory is always searched/used first.
Is the default window size in gvim small?
I wanted to continue using Vim so started using gVim . gVim is a modified version of the UNIX Vi editor. Here are some things I’ve needed to configure while using gVim. The default window size when opening a file in gVim is small. To make gVim maximise windows on file open add the following to you _vimrc file.
Where do I Find my gvim config file?
Here are some things I’ve needed to configure while using gVim. The default window size when opening a file in gVim is small. To make gVim maximise windows on file open add the following to you _vimrc file. Your _vimrc will be in the root folder of your Vim install, mine’s located in: C:\\Program Files\\Vim\\
Is there an ANSI escape code parser for Vim?
It seems that AnsiEsc just leaves such alone, but differently in Vim and mvim. Better doc on AnsiEsc would be welcome; links to a small ANSI escape code parser in python would be welcome. A test case for colored output from gnu ls and grep, with TERM xterm-256color and macosx Terminal version 2.3: See also the lovely bash script colors256 .
Is there an ANSI color code for Vim?
I’m not sure about vim, but if you’re just viewing a log file (ie you don’t need to be able to edit) you could use less: Since the link in the accepted answer doesn’t appear to be working, I found this link: https://github.com/vim-scripts/AnsiEsc.vim AnsiEsc works with basic ANSI color codes, but not other codes.