Re: Ubuntu packages of latest Vim? (to fix bug)

On 05/11/11 04:03, John Little wrote:
>> Does anyone have packages for Ubuntu Oneiric of the latest Vim?
>
> Building your own vim from the Mecurial repository is much easier than
> you might expect. For Ubuntu start with
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome
>
> then follow Tony's instructions at

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial and

> http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm
>
>> In short, Oneiric's gVim ... doesn't show the menu
>> bar at all.
>
> Not showing the menu bar is a Unity thing, not vim's fault. Mousing
> over the bar at the top of the screen (not the vim window) might,
> depending on the invocation of gvim, show you vim's menu bar there.
> There's workarounds, by setting an environment variable before
> invoking vim. (Unless you are keen on Unity, I suggest defecting to
> Kubuntu.)
>
> Regards, John
>

Best regards,
Tony.
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