> The vim.org site offers all kinds of alternate ways to obtain and
> install vim 7.3, requiriing software I never heard of before. On
> Linux can I just:
You should search if precompiled binaries exist for you linux distribution
first.
> 1. Download the bz2 file.
> 2. bunzip
> 3. tar xvf
You can combine the steps 2 and 3 with only tar xvf (if you're using an older
version of tar, use tar xjvf)
> 4. ./configure
Worths reading './configure --help' first, there are many configurable options.
If you want a featureful vim, ./configure --with-features=huge would be
sufficient (also look for python/perl/netbeans options)
> 5. make
> 6. make install
> ?
Suposing you have all the dependencies, steps 5 and 6 will be straightforward
(step 6 will need root permissions)
>
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