Mastering Vim

Setting up on Linux

Linux machines come with Vim installed, which is great news! However, it might be rather out of date, and Vim 8 introduces some much-needed optimizations. Pull up your Command Prompt, and run the following code:

$ git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git$ cd vim/src$ make$ sudo make install

If you're running into issues as you're installing Vim, you might be missing some dependencies. If you're using a Debian-based distribution, the following command should add common missing dependencies : $ sudo apt-get install make build-essential libncurses5- $ sudo apt-get install make build-essential libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev --fix-missing

This will make sure you’re on the latest major and minor patch of Vim. If you don’t ...