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How can I get a newer version of Vim on Ubuntu?
You have three different options:
Wait for the newest versions to be added to the distribution packages. Note that you might want to learn a new language or build a ship with your bare hands while ...
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Why is Vim for Debian compiled without clipboard?
The package description contains
This package contains a version of vim compiled with a rather
standard set of features. This package does not provide a GUI
version of Vim. See the other ...
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How to enable +python feature in vim
You need to compile Vim yourself or get a prebuilt Vim package that was compiled with Python support.
If you're on a Debian based system, the easiest way is to download the vim-gnome or vim-gtk ...
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how to install vim with python support for debian strech
It looks like I'm a bit late, but I'll leave this here for future visitors also struggling with this.
$ sudo apt install vim-nox
This is the Vim package in Debian Stretch that adds support for ...
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How to install stable version of neovim on Ubuntu 18.04
There is ppa recommended on the project page:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neovim
You'll get v0.4.3:
$ nvim --version ...
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How can I install 64-bit Vim on Windows?
I think tuxproject.de is the way to go and I think, it will pick up Python dll, if they are in your path and are also 64bit. The easy way is to copy them to your .vim directory, to make sure vim will ...
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Vim 8.0 Python support
The pi-rho/dev PPA now supports Vim 8, and like it always has, includes support for Python/Python3:
$ vim --version | grep python
+cryptv +linebreak +python/dyn +vreplace
+cscope ...
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Is there a difference between "sudo apt-get vim" and "./configure --with-features=huge"?
If you look at the options used to build the various packages (in debian/rules), you'll see
OPTFLAGS+=--with-features=huge
...
NOINTERPFLAGS:=--disable-luainterp
NOINTERPFLAGS+=--disable-...
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How to enable +python feature in vim
Solution 1 :
Install vim-gtk package
sudo apt install vim-gtk
Set Vim as a default editor
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/vim.gtk 1
sudo update-...
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Can I still use console vim if I install a GUI version?
Yes.
Vim-gnome does install gvim, but it also installs a much more feature-filled version of command line vim, including Perl, Python, Ruby, and TCL scripting, system-clipboard, newer patches, etc.
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Vim 8.0 Python support
From your question it appears that you have installed vim-tiny 8.0 that is a very minimal Vim runtime without plugins. You can confirm this using this:
dpkg -l | grep vim
You can have several Vim ...
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How can I install 64-bit Vim on Windows?
I was just looking this information up and I only found one x64 version not mentioned by Christian. Here's a summary of the interfaces each version supports today to give you an idea of how well they ...
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Where is my vim installed?
Where is my vim installed?
If you installed through apt the following sequence should get you to the Vim installation.
From inside Vim,
:echo $VIMRUNTIME
/usr/share/vim/vim74
You could look in ...
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Where is my vim installed?
You are not supposed to do anything with the default runtime so where Vim was installed doesn't matter.
Whatever customization you want to do, do it in $HOME.
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Why is Vim for Debian compiled without clipboard?
VIM is intended to be a portable editor that "just works" on all systems. By having the default version use the clipboard functionality, it will need to link against X11 libraries, and a separate ...
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How can I build vim with just python 3 support?
Thanks to x33a on the Arch forums, I was able to solve my problem. (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1596987#p1596987)
I changed the python 3 flag from
--enable-python3interp=dyanmic
to
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How to enable +python feature in vim
In order to support python-mode you need to have +python AND +python3. This should get you there (at least on macOS):
./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-features=huge --enable-pythoninterp --...
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Can I still use console vim if I install a GUI version?
can I still use it in the text mode I am familiar with?
Yes, you can still use the terminal version of vim.
How does the gui mode interact with a terminal-based user?
If you SSH into a machine ...
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Vim 8.0 Python support
Solution 1 :
Install VIM Editor(Install any one of them of vim variant) :
vim-gtk3 :- This package contains a version of vim compiled with a GTK3 GUI and support for scripting with Lua, Perl, ...
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Vim 8.0 Python support
you should use
sudo apt-get install vim-nox
instead, to get a "huge-version".
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How to enable +python feature in vim
For Windows you can always grab the very latest patched version of Vim 8.x compiled against the latest external libraries here: Vim downloads
At the time of posting the most current versions:
Latest ...
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how to install vim with python support for debian strech
I usually use this procedure for installation (used also under Debian 9)
# Clean from standard vim
sudo apt-get remove --purge vim vim-runtime vim-gnome vim-tiny vim-common vim-gui-common
# Vim ...
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Install Vim with +clipboard support but without Gvim?
Building Vim from the source with the right flags is the general solution.
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim/src
./configure --with-x=yes --disable-gui
The last command will probably ...
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Vim 8.0 Python support
You should install vim from source. That way, you have control over what is included. See the following for more info and a step by step walkthrough. It is relatively easy.
https://github.com/...
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How can I build vim with just python 3 support?
The problem was not in Vim's default Python interpreter.
The real root of the problem is that the last version of jedi-vim (0.7.0) was released in 2013 and did not work well with Python 3.
Since ...
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How can I automate checking for new Vim releases on Windows?
It seems that chocolatey could be the solution to your problem. It is a package manager for Windows. (With the ambition of being "sort of apt-get for Windows")
If you are ready to use it to ...
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Is there a difference between "sudo apt-get vim" and "./configure --with-features=huge"?
Indeed the version you get with apt-get install vim doesn't have all the features of a version compiled with --with-features=huge. For example you don't always have options like +python or +lua.
A ...
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How can I get a newer version of Vim on Ubuntu?
#!/usr/bin/env bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git
sudo apt install -y build-essential
rm -fr /tmp/vim
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git /tmp/vim
make -C /tmp/vim
sudo make ...
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How can I get a newer version of Vim on Ubuntu?
Another option is to install Homebrew on Linux as an alternate package manager and use it to install the latest vim with:
brew install vim
Homebrew Features:
Can install software to your home ...
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How to enable +python feature in vim
For a server instalation without GUI use vim-nox instead.
apt install vim-nox
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