Re: Installing gvim on Windows with no admin rights

On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:06:55 AM UTC-5, His Nerdship wrote:
> I have just started a contract at my most anal company yet. They don't give admin rights on the PC (even to developers), so I can't install anything and I can't use RegEdit (even on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive).
> I would really like to use Vim, but it is not on "The List" so I cannot install it legitimately. I have copied in the files, which kinda works, but the best use is through a proper installation which sets up the Registry keys etc. I have kludged together a small C++ program to mimic in HKEY_CURRENT_USER the Vim entries in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and thus use the right-click context menu item "Edit with Vim" in Windows Explorer (this works programatically, but not with RegEdit).
> Is there any way gvim can be installed by someone with no admin rights?
> Failing that, what other Registry entries can I kludge onto HKEY_CURRENT_USER? I would like the other context menu item "Edit with Existing Vim", for example.

I don't know about the "edit with Vim" registry entries. I don't use them much anymore because they don't work on my 64-bit system at work. But you can make use of the Windows "Send To" menu as a substitute for those:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Add_Vim_to_Windows_Send_To_menu

Using the --remote family of command switches, you can accomplish the same thing as all the "edit in Vim" entries without touching the registry at all.

For file associations, there is a location in HKEY_CURRENT_USER which can be used for those:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Windows_file_associations#User-specific_file_associations

I've installed Vim on multiple lab machines at work where I have no admin rights, by installing into C:\Vim instead of C:\Program Files\Vim, and using the user-specific file associations instead of global ones.

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