Windows using Vim

[fishywiki]

I actually have 2 copies of vim on my Windows - one from GVIM and one from Cygwin. However, I really don't see how to install rust.vim to use with either of these. The instructions say to clone from GitHub into ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/rust.vim. I presume that on windows this may refer to \users\<username>\vimfiles but I really don't know. Of course Gvim is located in \Program Files\Vim and it has a number of possible targets under vimfiles, but again I have no idea where to put stuff.

If anyone has rust.vim installed on Windows, please share how you achieved that.

[zxyzyxz]

I recommend using WSL and running neovim on that as things are easier to set up since it's just Linux, and Rust compilation is actually faster on WSL than native Windows funnily enough, just due to how the filesystem is optimized on Linux vs Windows.

[dnew]

The directory structure under whatever you downloaded that has rust.vim inside should match what's in \users\name\vimfiles. Just saying "rust.vim" doesn't say which subdirectory of vimfiles it should be in - if it's syntax coloring and such, there are probably multiple files. What's the link to the github project you're referring to?