Can I manage vim versions with everyenv?

[Bruno Sutic]

Hey,
can I use everyenv to manage vim versions on my system?

For example, on OSX there's a system vim in /usr/bin/vim. I also wanna install latest stable release via brew and the latest version from HEAD.
Now I'd like to be able to see which versions I have installed and easily switch from one to another for the purpose of playing and debugging. Having a .ruby-version file equivalent is not important at all.

Would this be possible? And how?

Thanks a lot!

[Mislav Marohnić]

Good question! You should be able to manage multiple versions of anything with this project, including vim. Here's how I would try it:

1. PROGRAM_NAME=vimenv PROGRAM_EXECUTABLE=vim make
2. Move vimenv into PATH
3. Follow the instruction in vimenv init to add the initialization line to your shell profile
4. Install or symlink vim versions into ~/.vimenv/versions/*
5. Open another shell window
6. MAGIC! 🎉 vimenv versions should show available versions. Switch between them with vimenv global <version>. Or, use vimenv shell <version> to change the version temporarily only in the currently active shell instance.

[Bruno Sutic]

Thanks Mislav, I'll give it a try.