On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:57:51AM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> The vim.org site offers all kinds of alternate ways to obtain and 
> install vim 7.3, requiriing software I never heard of before.   On 
> Linux can I just:

You should search if precompiled binaries exist for you linux distribution
first.

> 1. Download the bz2 file.
> 2. bunzip 
> 3. tar xvf 

You can combine the steps 2 and 3 with only tar xvf (if you're using an older
version of tar, use tar xjvf)

> 4. ./configure 

Worths reading './configure --help' first, there are many configurable options.
If you want a featureful vim, ./configure --with-features=huge would be
sufficient (also look for python/perl/netbeans options)

> 5. make 
> 6. make install
> ?

Suposing you have all the dependencies, steps 5 and 6 will be straightforward
(step 6 will need root permissions)

> 
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