choco uninstall vim does not uninstall vim, and uninstaller leaves the shell extension in place

[fpqc]

So ideally, the idea behind chocolatey is that you can install and uninstall packages cleanly. However, the vim package is highly broken on uninstall. First, running choco uninstall vim actually fails to uninstall anything at all, which means you have to uninstall via the uninstaller in add/remove programs.

However, even running that uninstaller fails to remove the shell extension, which has to be removed manually in the registry, so the uninstall process is extremely dirty.

Suggestions:
1.) Add an option to install without the shell extension (by manually removing the relevant registry entries).

2.) Fix the uninstall process generally, by running the uninstaller properly in silent mode, and manually removing those registry entries for the shell extension.

[ferventcoder]

Looks like VIM still uses the cream installer. Have you thought about using vim-tux instead? https://chocolatey.org/packages/vim-tux