How to Install Vim 7.4 in Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04, 12.04

Last updated: August 19, 2013

Vim 7.4 has been released. Since 7.3 more than a thousand improvements have been made. Also a lot of bugs has been fixed. This simple tutorial will show you how to install or upgrade Vim 7.4 in Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 via PPA.

NOTE: The PPA contains the unofficial builds of fresh Vim development versions. Use it at your own risk!

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nmi/vim-snapshots

Then update and install Vim:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install vim

Once installed, you can do “:help version7.4” while using vim editor to check all changes.

To remove / downgrade Vim, run below commands:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge; sudo ppa-purge ppa:nmi/vim-snapshots

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