Thanks John. I'll be upgrading precise soon. Best regards, Daniel
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 18:59 John Little <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 2:00:41 AM UTC+13, Daniel Kho wrote: > > Somehow the one installed by the package manager seems pretty old. > Doing a ":version" gave the following: > > :version > > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled May 4 2012 04:25:35) > > Included patches: 1-429 > > That's the version in Ubuntu Precise Pangolin, released in April 2012, aka > 12.04. If you're really on precise, you could do-release-upgrade to 14.04. > Ubuntu 15.04 has 7.4.488, but compiling your own is so easy, so long as > you run > > sudo apt-get build-dep vim > > and > > sudo apt-get install build-essential > > before trying to compile vim. > > Regards, John Little > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/hqsPqAmWn6g/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Best regards, Daniel - Sent from my Samsung mobile - -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
