Created
July 17, 2011 21:14
-
-
Save lonnen/1088069 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Get a more recent vim running in your terminal
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
# you'll need mercurial, gzip, a c compiler... | |
# though you could skip the mercurial if you download the source directly | |
# get the latest source checkout | |
hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim | |
cd vim | |
# if you already have the source, make sure it is up to date | |
## cd path/to/vim | |
## hg pull | |
## hg update default | |
cd src | |
# wont hurt to make sure things are clean | |
make distclean | |
# -prefix will put the build in your home dir, this is the important option | |
# the rest can be changed to taste, and don't represent an exhaustive list | |
# the listed ones will attempt to enable a gui for your platform, and allow | |
# vim to be scripted with python. | |
./configure -prefix=$HOME --enable-gui=auto --enable-pythoninterp | |
make test | |
make -j2 # flag optional, attempts to parallelize compilation | |
make install | |
# add this line to .bashrc or .bash_profile to make sure the compiled version | |
# is found before the one distributed with OSX | |
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH |
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment