Aug
15th
Fri
15th
Vim…we can rebuild it.
Well if you’re like me and enjoy using Vim for ruby on rails dev work in Ubuntu, then you’ve probably experienced the broken pile of poo that is the default Vim in the 8.04 repo.
So here’s a brief whatsit on how to build (and how I build) my vim from src. I’m using the default 8.04 install
Download Vim:
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.2.tar.bz2
Prepare Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome
Build Vim from the vim src directory:
./configure —with-features=huge —enable-gui=gnome2
This will put a new vim and gvim in /usr/local/bin…enjoy!
