You can try the scriptvim7-install.sh (attached)
which downloads, builds and installs latest vim7
in one command without arguments.
Description and download link ia at:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1473
Invocation:
sh ./vim7-install.sh
Or save the script directly from
> there seems to be a vim-7.1.tar.bz2 but I have no idea what a bz2
> file is and the site doesn't explain it (that I can find...).
bz2 is a compression format (like gz, but with better compression). On
many systems, tar can uncompress tar.bz2 files directly if you do
tar xfj file.tar
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Tuesday, 4. March 2008:
>
> Not sure why this couldn't be setup to be as easy as installing gvim
> for my windows box...
What Linux distribution do you use? Isn't there an up-to-date version of Vim
available within your package manager? That's the normal way for end-users to
in
Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
> This configure step also has advantages: you could say that it has the
> qualities of its defaults: it allows (almost) common treatment for not
> only various Linux distributions but also Unix and Unix-like systems
> which have nothing to do with Linux, such as BeOS,
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I seem to have a problem where I want to upgrade my version of gvim
>> for linux but am somewhat confused by the site
>>
>> there seems to be a vim-7.1.tar.bz2 but I have no idea what a bz2
>> file is and the site doesn't explain i
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Charles E Campbell Jr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I seem to have a problem where I want to upgrade my version of gvim
> > for linux but am somewhat confused by the site
> >
> > there seems to be a vim-7.1.tar.bz2 but I ha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I seem to have a problem where I want to upgrade my version of gvim
> for linux but am somewhat confused by the site
>
> there seems to be a vim-7.1.tar.bz2 but I have no idea what a bz2
> file is and the site doesn't explain it (that I can find...).
>
> so I tri
I seem to have a problem where I want to upgrade my version of gvim
for linux but am somewhat confused by the site
there seems to be a vim-7.1.tar.bz2 but I have no idea what a bz2
file is and the site doesn't explain it (that I can find...).
so I tried to use vim-6.4-src1.tar.gz and vim
