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I visited another city and forgot to bring my laptop. A friend offered to let me use his Windows 10 account, but without installing anything (including cygwin from a non-administrator account). It's a non-administrator account on a very locked-down machine with USB ports disabled -- not that I have a mem stick or a means of putting vim on it.

I found several online webpages offering vim functionality, either by spinning up a VM or providing a JavaScript port of vim.

I tried "yanking" text from editted buffer (y command), copying to vim's idea of the system clipboard (register *). Unfortunately, the text doesn't actually get copied to the system clipboard of my friend’s non-administrator acount on Windows 10. In Notepad.exe, ctrl+v pastes content that was copied from a previous "copy" action in Windows, not the yanked text.

Because of the above, I will not be able to retrieve anything from an editted buffer. Is there an online vim editor that synchronizes the system clipboard with that of the OS on which the browser is running?

I did not explore the above VM option of sending the buffer contents via email or upload it to the cloud. This is because I don't want to enter login information from the VM.

Dom
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    Any reason you cannot download e.g. a zip file from e.g. https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases and use that one? You just need to extract the package into your $HOME folder, no installation with admin rights required – Christian Brabandt Oct 10 '21 at 10:34
  • I followed the more information link to get milestone releases rather than nightly releases. Eventually, I found myself to SouceForge's Cream for Vim, but got a message about this version not being for my OS. The friend thinks that it might be the locked down security kicking in. He clarified that no *.exe files should be run, so I think I'm back to looking for an online Vim. Thanks anyway! – user2153235 Oct 11 '21 at 03:45
  • I think Cream for Vim is no longer maintained. Also, even so they are called nightlies, it should be perfectly okay to download a zip archive from the vim-win32-installer github page. Those are official patch releases. You could also try to download the release 8.2, but that is already quiet old, so I would go with an up-to-date vim release – Christian Brabandt Oct 11 '21 at 07:21
  • Thanks, Christian. Unfortunately, with the additional constraint that I cannot run any (non-native) *.exe files, I think I am stucking using Notepad. I will make one last stab at finding an online vim that synchronizes register * with the local cut/paste clipboard. – user2153235 Oct 11 '21 at 17:18

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