vim Installation
Prerequisites
on Ubuntu & Linux Mint ...
sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev libpython-dev libperl-dev libruby2.0 curl libx11-dev libxtst-dev libx11-dev libxt-dev libsm-dev libxpm-dev ruby-dev libncurses5-dev git terminator
on Arch Linux ...
sudo pacman -S git terminator ruby
All other given dependencies seem to be satisfied by a clean default install of Arch Linux (only tried it once). Please be aware, that installing ruby via pacman can interfere with ruby environment changers like http://rvm.io
You will need to use a good terminal emulator, such as terminator - we basically installed that for you.
Install vim
... as we need it.
# do once:
mkdir ~/code
cd ~/code
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git vim
cd vim
# do regularly
cd ~/code/vim
git pull
make distclean
./configure --with-x --enable-fail-if-missing --enable-rubyinterp=dynamic --enable-multibyte --enable-fontset --enable-gui=gtk2 --enable-gtk2-check --enable-gnome-check --enable-motif-check --with-features=huge --with-compiledby=Hendrik Bergunde --with-gnome --enable-pythoninterp=dynamic --enable-python3interp=dynamic --enable-perlinterp=yes
make
sudo make install
# make sure everythin worked well:
# does the following command show a very recent version of vim?
# (i.e. not your distro's package version)
vim --version
Install vim configuration
git clone --branch=master https://github.com/hendrikb/vimfiles.git ~/.vim
cp ~/.vimrc ~/.vimrc.old ; ln -sf ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
git clone https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
cd ~/.vim
./update_bundles.sh
Install most awesome "Source Code Pro for Powerline" fonts on Ubuntu/Linux Mint
For Details on those fonts, that will make your vim will look pretty cool, check out the projects website: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts
cd ~/code
git clone https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts.git
cd powerline-fonts
./install.sh
After you installed your fonts to ~/.fonts you should now switch to these
fonts in your terminal emulator application. Therefor, in Terminator for
example, go to the Preferences and disable system fonts, select "Source Code
Pro for Powerline" (or anything similar).
If colors don't seem to work (you should see a lot of yellow/green and syntax
highlighting), make sure your environment variable TERM is set to
something xterm-256color. You can add something like...
export TERM=xterm-256color
... to your ~/.bashrc.
You should now be able to able to use Vim from your command line. :)