Where to download Vim 8.0 for Windows? Official download web page does not download the installation file?

Igor Forca

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Oct 6, 2016, 7:31:24 AM10/6/16

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Hi,
I tried to download gVim 8.0 from http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc and link points to ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim80.exe but clicking on this link and nothing happens (actually it starts downloading file gvim80.exe but it has 0 bytes).

Any idea what is wrong? Or any idea where to download Vim?
Regards

Markus Frewel

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Oct 6, 2016, 8:57:09 AM10/6/16

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Try http instead of ftp!
http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim80.exe

Igor Forca

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Oct 6, 2016, 9:47:00 AM10/6/16

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I tried by I got error:

Virus/Spyware Download Blocked
Download of the virus/spyware has been blocked in accordance with company policy. Please contact your system administrator if you believe this is in error. File name: gvim80.exe

It looks like company antivirus found something special in this file. Is there some https (secure) server to download from in order to prevent corporate antivirus program to block this?

Tony Mechelynck

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Oct 6, 2016, 10:38:35 AM10/6/16

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/Vim/ offers (at the
moment) Vim 8.0.3 for Win32. It will also run on Win64, thanks to the
WOW64 module of the OS. But it won't handle files larger than 2 GiB
even if you have the memory for it, and I think Numbers (integers) are
limited to the range from -21474836478 to +2147483647 too. Floating
numbers, of course, don't have that limitation.

Best regards,
Tony.

Ben Fritz

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Oct 6, 2016, 10:50:14 AM10/6/16

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On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 9:38:35 AM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Igor Forca <igo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I tried to download gVim 8.0 from http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc and link points to ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim80.exe but clicking on this link and nothing happens (actually it starts downloading file gvim80.exe but it has 0 bytes).
> >
> > Any idea what is wrong? Or any idea where to download Vim?
> > Regards
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/Vim/ offers (at the
> moment) Vim 8.0.3 for Win32.

Or get it from the official "nightly" builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases which has all currently released patches to 8.0 (currently 8.0.22).

These and other places listed on http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Where_to_download_Vim

Igor Forca

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Oct 12, 2016, 9:25:52 AM10/12/16

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Hi,
I have downloaded gvim_8.0.0027_x64.zip from https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases unzipped file and started gVim.exe and Vim works superb.

Thanks for help. Problem solved.
Regards,
Igor

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