Vim is available for many different systems and there are several versions.This page will help you decide what to download.
Using git This is the simplest and most efficient way to obtain the latest version, including all patches. This requires the 'git' command.
The explanations are on this page:GitHubUsing Mercurial This is another simple and most efficient way to obtain the latest version, including all patches. This requires the 'hg' command.
The explanations are on this page:MercurialUsing Aap Aap is a new tool that does all the work of downloading and patching for you.You download one file, called a recipe, and 'aap install' does all the work.To later update to the latest version of Vim you do not need to downloadanything manually, just use the command 'aap update'.version 7.x and 8.x There is one big file to download that contains almost everything.It is found inthe unix directory(ftp):
If you would like to use translated messages and menus on Vim 7.2 and earlier, get an additional archive fromthe extra directory (ftp):
version 6.x You have a choice: Either get the one big archive OR get four smallerones (that each fit on a floppy disk). They are all inthe unix directory (ftp):
If you would like to use translated messages and menus, get an additionalarchive fromthe extra directory (ftp):
version 5.x There are two files you should both get fromthe unix directory (ftp):
The files ending in '.tar.gz' are tar archives that are compressed with gzip.Unpack them with tar -xzf filename.
The single big file ending in '.tar.bz2' is a tar archive compressed withbzip2. Uncompress and unpack it withbunzip2 -c filename | tar -xf -.
All archives should be unpacked in the same directory.
gvim81.exe (ftp)
It includes GUI and console versions, for 32 bit and 64 bit systems.You can select what you want to install and includes an uninstaller.
![Install Install](/uploads/1/3/3/9/133907423/989146829.png)
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All $ make does is build Vim in vim/src; it doesn't install it or any of its dependency. To install the Vim you just built you need to do $ sudo make install. Since the OP only did $ make, nothing happened outside of vim/: Vim was not installed so he doesn't have to do anything. – romainl Sep 13 at 5:42.
The most popular:MS-Windows: | Click this link to download the self-installing executable(using ftp). |
Unix: | See the GitHub page, or Mercurial, if you prefer that. |
Mac: | See the MacVim project |
Details and options for:
Mirrors | Alternative sites to download Vim files from. |
Sources | Build Vim yourself and/or make changes. |
GitHub | Obtain Vim sources with a git client (recommended). |
Mercurial | Obtain Vim sources with a Mercurial client(recommended if you don't like git). |
Patches | Include the latest improvements (requires sources and rebuilding). |
Runtime | Get the latest syntax files, documentation, etc. |
Script links | Links to individual syntax, indent, color, compiler and ftplugin scripts. |
Translations | Non-English documentation packages. |
Versions before 7.3 can also be obtained withSubversionandCVS.Vim 8.1 is the latest stable version. It is highly recommended, many bugs have been fixed since 7.4 and earlier.If you have a problem with it (e.g.,when it's too big for your system), you could try version 6.4 or 5.8 instead.
To avoid having to update this page for every new version, there arelinks to the directories. From there select the files you want to download.In the file names ## stands for the version number. For example,vim##src.zipwith version 8.1 is vim81src.zip andvim-##-src.tar.gz for version 8.1is vim-8.1-src.tar.gz.Links are provided for quick access to the latest version.
Note that the links point to the latest version (currently 8.1) to avoidthat caching causes you to get an older version.
The best way to install Vim on Unix is to use the sources. This requires acompiler and its support files. Compiling Vim isn't difficult at all.You can simply type 'make install' when you are happy with the defaultfeatures. Edit the Makefile in the 'src' directory to select specificfeatures.Note that the links point to the latest version (currently 8.1) to avoidthat caching causes you to get an older version.
You need to download at the sources and the runtime files.And apply all the latest patches.For Vim 6 up to 7.2 you can optionally get the 'lang' archive, which adds translated messages and menus. For 7.3 and later this is included with the runtime files.
The explanations are on this page:GitHub
Summary:
The explanations are on this page:Mercurial
Summary:
The detailed explanation can be foundhere.This does require Python and installing Aap. Please report problems to Bram ATa-a-p.org.
The runtime and source files together: | vim-##.tar.bz2 | vim-8.1.tar.bz2 (ftp) |
The language files. | vim-##-lang.tar.gz | vim-7.2-lang.tar.gz (ftp) |
The runtime and source files together: | vim-##.tar.bz2 | vim-6.4.tar.bz2 (ftp) |
The runtime files part 1: | vim-##-rt1.tar.gz | vim-6.4-rt1.tar.gz (ftp) |
The runtime files part 2: | vim-##-rt2.tar.gz | vim-6.4-rt2.tar.gz (ftp) |
The source files part 1: | vim-##-src1.tar.gz | vim-6.4-src1.tar.gz (ftp) |
The source files part 2. | vim-##-src2.tar.gz | vim-6.4-src2.tar.gz (ftp) |
The language files. | vim-##-lang.tar.gz | vim-6.4-lang.tar.gz (ftp) |
The runtime files: | vim-##-rt.tar.gz | vim-5.8-rt.tar.gz |
The source files: | vim-##-src.tar.gz | vim-5.8-src.tar.gz (ftp) |
The single big file ending in '.tar.bz2' is a tar archive compressed withbzip2. Uncompress and unpack it withbunzip2 -c filename | tar -xf -.
All archives should be unpacked in the same directory.
If you can't compile yourself or don't want to, look at the site of thesupplier of your Unix version for a packaged Vim executable. For Linuxdistributions and FreeBSD these are often available shortly after a new Vimversion has been released. But you can't change the features then.
- Debian packages are available at:http://packages.debian.org/vim.
- Sun Solaris Vim is included in the Companion Software:http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/.
Vim for other Sun systems can be found athttp://sunfreeware.com/. - HPUX with GTK GUI for various HPUX versions:http://hpux.its.tudelft.nl/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-6.2/ orhttp://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-6.2/ (note that the remark about the GNU GPL is wrong)
gvim81.exe (ftp)
It includes GUI and console versions, for 32 bit and 64 bit systems.You can select what you want to install and includes an uninstaller.
If you want the most recent improvements, with a small risk that something isbroken, you can get the nightly build from
vim-win32-installer
https://disakaiseralarm.weebly.com/south-park-the-stick-of-truth-free-download.html. It supports many interfaces, such as Perl, Tcl, Lua, Python and Ruby.
vim-win32-installer
https://disakaiseralarm.weebly.com/south-park-the-stick-of-truth-free-download.html. It supports many interfaces, such as Perl, Tcl, Lua, Python and Ruby.
A 64 bit version, which only runs on 64 bit MS-Windows and uses a lot more memory, but is compatible with 64 bit plugins, can be foundhereYou can also find links to interfaces to install there (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.).
![Install Install](/uploads/1/3/3/9/133907423/989146829.png)
For the latest version with all patches included see Creambelow. These versions are unofficial, but the download numberis high and complaints are few.
Since there are so many different versions of MS operating systems, there areseveral versions of Vim for them.
For Vim 5.x, Vim 6.x and Vim 7 look inthe pc directory (ftp).
For Vim 5.x, Vim 6.x and Vim 7 look inthe pc directory (ftp).
- Self-installing executable gvim##.exe gvim81.exe (ftp)
- For Vim 6 and later. This includes a GUI versionof Vim - with many features and OLE support - and all the runtime files.It works well on MS-Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.Use this if you have enough disk space and memory. It's the simplest way tostart using Vim on the PC. The installer allows you to skip the parts youdon't want.
For Vim 6.3 and later it also includes a console version, both for MS-Windows 95/98/ME and MS-Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. The installer automatically selects the right one.
- Runtime files vim##rt.zip vim81rt.zip (ftp)
- For all the following binary versions you need this runtime archive, whichincludes the documentation, syntax files, etc. Always get this, unless youuse the self-installing executable.
There are three versions that run as an MS-Windows application. These providemenus, scrollbars and a toolbar.
- GUI executable gvim##.zip gvim81.zip (ftp)
- This is the 'normal' GUI version.
- OLE GUI executable gvim##ole.zip gvim81ole.zip (ftp)
- A GUI version with OLE support. This offers a few extra features,such as integration with Visual Developer Studio. But it uses quite a bitmore memory.
- Win32s GUI executable gvim##_s.zip gvim73_46_s.zip (ftp)
- GUI version for Windows 3.1 with win32s support. (Not available for Vim 6.2, 6.3 and 7.4 and later)
A true Windows 3.1 version can be found here:http://www.bulbous.freeserve.co.uk/vim16.html
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- 16 bit DOS executable vim##d16.zip vim71d16.zip (ftp)
- The 16 bit DOS version is the only one that runs on old MS-DOS systems. Onlyuse this if you are really desparate, because it excludes many useful features(such as syntax highlighting and long file names) and quickly runs out ofmemory.
The last version available is 7.1. Version 7.2 and later are too big to fit in the DOS memory model. - 32 bit DOS executable vim##d32.zip vim73_46d32.zip (ftp)
- The 32 bit DOS version works well on MS-Windows 95/98/ME. It requires a DPMImanager, which needs to be installed on MS-DOS. MS-Windows already has one.It supports long file names, but NOT on MS-Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. It is compiled with 'big' features.
Not available for 7.4 and later. - Win32 console executable vim##w32.zip vim81w32.zip (ftp)
- The Win32 console version works well on MS-Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. It supports long file names and is compiled with 'big' features. It does not runperfectly well on MS-Windows 95/98/ME, especially when resizing the consolewindow (this may crash MS-Windows.).
- iconv librarylibiconv
- A library used for converting character sets.Put 'iconv.dll' in the same directory as gvim.exe to be able to edit files inmany encodings. You can find the dll file in the bin directory of the'libiconv-win32' archive.
- newer intl librarylibintl
- The included libintl.dll does not support encoding conversion.If you have installed the iconv library, as mentioned above, you can install agettext library that uses it.Get 'intl.dll' from the bin directory in the gettext-win32 archive and store itas 'libintl.dll' in the same directory as gvim.exe, overwriting the filethat may already be there.
- PC sources vim##src.zip vim81src.zip (ftp)
- The source files, packed for the PC. This only includes the files needed onthe PC, not for other systems. The files are in dos format CR-LF.
- PC debug files gvim##.pdb gvim81.pdb (ftp) gvim##ole.pdb gvim81ole.pdb (ftp) vim##w32.pdb vim80w32.pdb (ftp)
- When you notice a bug or a crash in Vim these files can be used to help tracing down the problem. In Vim 7 do ':help debug-win32' to see how.
- PC translations vim##lang.zip vim72lang.zip (ftp)
- Only for 7.2 and earlier, for 7.3 and later these are included in the 'rt' archive.Translated messages and menu files, packed for the PC. Use this to seenon-English menus. The messages are only translated when the libintl.dlllibrary is installed.
- Windows 3.1 GUI executable gvim##w16.zip and gvim##m16.zip
- These are GUI versions for 16 bit windows (Windows 3.1). The 'w16' has manyfeatures, 'm16' has few features (for when you're short on memory).
Alternate distributions
- Cream
- For an unofficial version that does include all the latest patches andoptionally a bitmore: Cream.The 'one-click installer' mentioned includes the Cream changes.For the 'real Vim' use the 'without Cream' version listed further down.
- Yongwei's build
- You may also try Yongwei's build,executables with slightly different interfaces supported.
- Cygwin
- For a Cygwin binary look at others.
- Win64
- The 32-bit version of Vim runs fine on 64-bit windows.There was a 64-bit binary, but it wasn't used much and maintenance stopped.
For Vim 5.x and Vim 6 look inthe amiga directory (ftp).
Vim 7 files can be found atos4depot.net. This is for AmigaOS 4. Made by Peter Bengtsson.
Vim 7 files can be found atos4depot.net. This is for AmigaOS 4. Made by Peter Bengtsson.
- Runtime files vim##rt.tgz vim64rt.tgz (ftp)
- Documentation, syntax files, etc. You always need this.
- Executable vim##bin.tgz vim64bin.tgz (ftp)
- The executables for Vim and Xxd.For Vim 6 it includes 'big' features, for Vim 5.x itincludes the normal features.For Vim 6.2 it is not available (my Amiga had harddisk problems then, this miraculously healed later).
- Big executable vim##big.tgz
- Vim with 'big' features and Xxd. Only for Vim 5.x.
- Sources vim##src.tgz vim64src.tgz (ftp)
- The source files for the Amiga.Only needed when you want to compile Vim yourself.
For Vim 5.x and Vim 6 look inthe os2 directory (ftp).Version 6.2 is not available.Versions 6.3 and 6.4 were compiled by David Sanders.
Version 7.0 was compiled by David Sanders.
Version 7.0 was compiled by David Sanders.
- Runtime files vim##rt.zip vim70rt.zip (ftp)
- Documentation, syntax files, etc. You always need this.
- Executables vim##os2.zip vim70os2.zip (ftp)
- Vim, Xxd, Tee and EMX libraries.
If you want to compile the OS/2 version, you need the EMX compiler. Use theUnix source archive, runtime files and the extra archive. After unpacking theruntime archive, move all the files and directories in the 'runtime'directory one level up.
The Macintosh binaries are not on the Vim ftp site. They are produced by a fewMacintosh lovers. Often they lag behind a few versions.Since MacOS 10.3 the 'vi' program is actually a console version of Vim 6.2 or later. Video editor for mac desktop. It has few features. If you want a GUI version or more features Vim needs to be installed separately.
There are currently two kinds of Vim for Macintosh:
- Using the Cocoa GUI. Also known as MacVim. This is the latest and is being actively developed. This behaves like a Mac application.
- Using the Carbon GUI. This is an older way of doing things and isn'tupdated much any more. This behaves more like Vim on Unix.
Cocoa (MacVim)
MacVim has more a Mac look and feel, is developed actively and most peopleprefer this version. Most of MacVim was made by Björn Winckler.
MacVim can be downloaded here: https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim
New versions are made quite often.Subscribe to thevim-mac maillistto be informed about bugs and updates.
Carbon
Recent binaries for Mac OS/X can be found on thisSourceForge project.Maintained by Nicholas Stallard.
Others
Sky go per mac download. There is also a version for Mac OSX that works in a terminal window and a GUIversion for X11 with GTK (produced by Marc Liyanage):
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/welcome.html#vim
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/welcome.html#vim
Here is a multi-byte version of Vim 5.7 (for Japanese, possibly also forKorean and Chinese; not for Unicode):
http://www-imai.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~asai/macvim-e.html
http://www-imai.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~asai/macvim-e.html
Most of the work forthe Macintosh port (Classic and Carbon) was done by Dany St-Amant.
If you have OSX and a setup for compiling programs, you can use the Unix andExtra source code archives and compile yourself. See the Unix sectionabove.The development tools can be downloaded from Apple's developer web site.Hint: stuffit expander can handle .bz2 files.Turn to the vim-mac maillist to meet otherVim-Mac users.
This is a list of links to sites where various versions of Vim can be obtained.These are supported by individuals, use at your own risk.Android | Search for 'Vim Touch' by Momodalo in the Play Store. |
i/OS | Run Vim on your iPhone or Ipad. |
QNX (ftp) | Provided by Yakov Zaytsev. Requires QNX 6.3.0/6.3.2 with service pack 2. |
Agenda | http://pi7.fernuni-hagen.de/hartrumpf/agenda/vim/vim.vr3 |
Cygwin (with GTK GUI) | http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/ |
Open VMS | http://www.polarhome.com/vim/ |
MorphOS | http://www.akcaagac.com/index_vim.html |
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I am using OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks).
What are the systematic steps to install to Gvim or MacVim in Mac OS? If you write the steps using 1, 2, 3, ., it would be easy to follow. Cheap video editor for mac.
I must confess that I failed to understand all the instructions provided on MacVim page. Other google-searched webpages do not clarify. E.g.
What is
$VIMRUNTIME
? What version of vim should I install for my OS? Now somehow I have installed MacVim in my system (Not systematically I believe).I can see that I have a folder
/Applications/gvim.app/MacVim.app/
. Now when I open a text file from MacVim, which was already written using vi-editor, MacVim does not recognize it. Also vi does not recognize whatever is written in MacVim!
How can I resolve this?
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- Step 1. Install homebrew from here: http://brew.sh
- Step 1.1. Run
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
- Step 2. Run
brew update
- Step 3. Run
brew install vim && brew install macvim
- Step 4. Run
brew link macvim
You now have the latest versions of vim and macvim managed by brew. Run
brew update && brew upgrade
every once in a while to upgrade them.This includes the installation of the CLI
mvim
and the mac application (which both point to the same thing).I use this setup and it works like a charm. Brew even takes care of installing vim with the preferable options.
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There is also a new option now in http://vimr.org/, which looks quite promising.
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- Audio eq editor for mac. Download the latest build from https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases File package editor for mac 10.7. Wd smartware download mac os x.
- Expand the archive.
- Put MacVim.app into
/Applications/
.
Done.
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That Macvim is obsolete. Use https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim instead
See the FAQ (https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/wiki/FAQ#how-can-i-open-files-from-terminal) for how to install the
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