Windows Terminal, Vim and WinTermNote

For Windows OS users a new command-line Application Manager has recently become available. If not already installed on your PC, you have to manually download the AppInstaller (.appxbundle) from the following repository.

From the PowerShell is now rather straightforward to install a new program with the single command winget:

   winget install vim

At the time of writing, this will install VIM version 8.2 compiled with the option huge.

   PS C:\> vim --version
   VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled May 30 2021 22:03:37)
   MS-Windows 64-bit console version
   Included patches: 1-2914

Notice that it also requires Python dll version 3.9.

   -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON3_DLL=\"python39.dll\"

If you are using my set of dotfiles, make sure you have this Python version install on your system and update the .vimrc file accordingly.

Another Windows OS recent important improvement is its new terminal emulator called Windows Terminal (wt.exe). WinTermNote can use both Windows Terminal and VIM installed from the package manager as shown in the video below.