{"id":1395,"date":"2013-08-19T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T10:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2013-08-19T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T10:44:25","slug":"upgrade-vim-7-4-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/upgrade-vim-7-4-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Vim 7.4 in Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04, 12.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VIM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VIM.jpg\" alt=\"Vim 7.4\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VIM.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VIM-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>NOTE: The PPA contains the unofficial builds of fresh Vim development versions. Use it at your own risk!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To get started, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nmi\/vim-snapshots<\/pre>\n<p>Then update and install Vim:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install vim<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, you can do &#8220;:help version7.4&#8221; while using vim editor to check all changes.<\/p>\n<p>To remove \/ downgrade Vim, run below commands:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge; sudo ppa-purge ppa:nmi\/vim-snapshots<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[497,496],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-how-to-upgrade-vim-in-ubuntu","tag-vim-7-4"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}