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From the linked page:

> Why use Vim Online Editor?

> 1. Because you love vim.

> 2. Because you don't have access to vim somehow (maybe you're on a Chromebook that doesn't allow access to the system)

> 3. Especially if you're on Windows and you still want to use vim.

> 4. Because you want a notepad of some sort in the browser, and you want to use vim bindings instead of normal notepad.

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Point 3 I don’t quite understand though. Last time I was using Windows, several years ago, I was perfectly able to run gVim on it. I can only imagine that with the subsystem for Linux and other things that have been added since then, surely it has only become easier to run Vim.

Last time I was actively using Windows was in the late WinXP / early Win7 era. But I don’t see why Win 10 / 11 would make running Vim difficult.

I do agree with all of the other points though.

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As a heavy vim user, I've literally been using gvim.exe every day on Windows for the past decade

https://www.vim.org/download.php#pc

neovim also has windows builds now, daily driver for me.

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