I want vim-gtk to use vim 7.4 which I installed from source, but gvim is opening with 7.3 itself.
On A fresh linuxmint, after updating system, I removed already existing vim, than installed vim 7.4 from source and it is perfect installation, everything went fine, and than installed ,
sudo apt-get install vim-gtk
than when I enter gvim, gvim is 7.3 not already existing 7.4!!! and if I enter vim from terminal than its vim-7.4.
I will be thankful if anyone helped me to run gvim on vim 7.4
Two things…
First, $ sudo apt-get install vim-gtk only uses your repositories (which are certainly frozen at 7.3.something), it doesn't care at all about what you installed manually.
Second, GVim is not a separate frontend that you add to an existing Vim: it is Vim, built with GUI support and either launched as gvim or as vim -g.
You could:
uninstall vim-gtk and re-compile Vim manually following these instructions (note the --enable-gui=gtk2)
or find an up-to-date ppa on LaunchPad.net, add it to your software sources and redo $ sudo apt-get install vim-gtk.
just install vim-gnome and vim-gui and reboot.It worked for me.
Maybe this post will help you install gvim 7.4. There are few steps:
Install the needed dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev build-essential mercurial
Clone the sources of Vim 7.4:
$ hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
Build Vim from sources:
$ cd vim/src
$ make distclean
$ ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-pythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp
$ make
$ sudo make install
Adjust the PATH:
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
I used this guide and get gvim 7.4.54.
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Recently I reinstall ubuntu. When I install vim in new ubuntu 16.04 OS syntax highlighting of PHP, JS has gone.
I install vim by using this command
sudo apt-get install vim
When syntax highlighting hasn't work, I reinstall vim by using this command.
sudo apt-get purge vim; sudo apt-get install vim
But still didn't work. Screenshot of PHP file which is opened by vim is given below.
The current vim i'm using is 7.3 version.
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jun 14 2016 16:06:49)
Compiled by root#apple.com
I tried to update vim to 8.0 by the command:
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim/src
make
However, it doesn't work. It's still vim 7.3.
You may have compiled vim, but the vim that's first in your path is still the system vim. You can show that using:
$ which vim
/usr/bin/vim
You can either call your compiled vim directly (probably in a folder called dist or bin), or put it in a place that is before /usr/bin in your $PATH variable. The easiest way to get an up-to-date vim on OS X is to use Homebrew:
$ brew install vim --with-override-system-vi
Trying
brew install vim --override-system-vim
didn't work for me either.
Upgrade Homebrew to latest version and then use
brew upgrade vim
vim --version
$ brew install vim --with-override-system-vi
Sounds dumb but most importantly close the terminal and then reopen it to see the new version of vim $ vim --version.
You are missing the final step for installing from source after running make:
sudo make install
That should install it to your path.
I'm trying to install UltiSnips in different way but the same message appears each time when I launch vim.
Python 2.7 is installed but it seems that vim has been installed before the 2.7 version.
I tryed to reinstall vim using this link:
$ sudo apt-get install mercurial libssl-dev
$ sudo apt-get build-dep vim
$ hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/pkg-vim/vim
$ cd vim
$ hg checkout unstable
$ debian/rules update-orig
$ dpkg-buildpackage -i -I
$ cd ..
But the same problem remains.
Thanks
You don't provide much information to help. You can check whether your Vim has Python via :py print "yes". For the Python version, check the :version output. It will contain something like -lpython2.7.
When you compile Vim yourself, you need to enable the Python integration by passing ./configure --enable-pythoninterp.
I had the same problem with NeoVim on Ubuntu. Running :CheckHealth pointed me into the right direction. Creating the following softlink solved the problem for me:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/python
Maybe obvious to most, but not to me was the fact that the neovim module had to be installed. On ubuntu, installing it using pip did the trick for me:
sudo pip3 install neovim
To install the module for python 3, I suppose pip3 has to exchanged for pip for python 2.
Download the source code from http://www.vim.org/.
Then
cd vim
make clean
./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-features=huge --enable-pythoninterp=yes --enable-multibyte --with-vim-name=vim --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu
make
sudo make install
I had the same problem after installing UltiSnips, my simple solution was to type inside vim :version where python3 wasn't install. I solve this installing vim-gtk3, try sudo apt install vim-gtk3 after installing gtk3 the message disapper and my vim launches normally ;)
I'm trying to recompile VIM with clipboard support and I'm attempting to follow this guide.
The trouble is that when I do:
sudo apt-get source vim
I get E: Unable to find a source package for vim, although the package name was auto-completed and exists if you type sudo apt-get source <tab><tab>
By the way, before I started, I did sudo apt-get remove vim.
Any ideas how to proceed?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Just do
$ sudo apt-get install vim-gnome
It will install both gvim and vim with clipboard support.
In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise the only way to get breakindent patch working in VIM seems to be compiling VIM itself after patching it. Here's what I've done:
Install pbuilder and create local environment
sudo apt-get install pbuilder debootstrap
sudo pbuilder create --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd
Get the sources
sudo apt-get source vim
Patch them with breakindent patch retrieved from the official repo
cd vim-7.3.429
patch -p1 < vim-breakindent.patch
sudo pbuilder build vim_7.3.429-2ubuntu2.1.dsc
Pbuilder correctly generates deb packages but, after installing them, no breakindent option is available:
:set bri
E518: Unknown option: bri
Where's the mistake?
Thank you
pbuilder is still using the unmodified .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, and .debian.tar.gz to build the package. Applying the patch to your local copy doesn't help.
You should probably add the patch to debian/patches/ and debian/patches/series, bump the local version number in debian/changelog (debchange can help), and re-make the source archive (something like dpkg-buildpackage -S).
Update: it worked following some more steps.
After apt-get source:
cd vim-7.3.429
sudo chmod u=rw,g=r,o=r ../vim-breakindent.patch
sudo cp ../vim-breakindent.patch debian/patches/debian/.
added one new entry in debian/changelog, bumping version from vim_7.3.429-2ubuntu2.1 to vim_7.3.429-2ubuntu2.2
added debian/vim-breakindent.patch at the end of debian/patches/series
generate new source package:
sudo pdebuild
compile the new .dsc:
sudo pbuilder build vim_7.3.429-2ubuntu2.2.dsc
install new debs:
sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result/*.deb