> there seems to be a vim-7.1.tar.bz2.... but I have no idea what a bz2
> file is and the site doesn't explain it (that I can find...).
bz2 is a compression format (like gz, but with better compression). On
many systems, tar can uncompress tar.bz2 files directly if you do
tar xfj file.tar.bz2
(that is, use a 'j' instead of the 'z' you use for tar.gz files).
Here's the second hit of a google search for "bz2":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2
> Not sure why this couldn't be setup to be as easy as installing gvim
> for my windows box...
There surely is a distribution-dependent way, that's "easy" (where
"easy" means "similar to windows"). For example, I'm sure you can
upgrade Vim through the add/remove programs dialog in Ubuntu. But
uncompressing the source and doing `make && sudo make install` is what
should work with all distributions.
HTH,
Nico
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