introduce
In order to install plugins like YouCompleteMe, you need to upgrade Vim to a higher version and enable the Python3 extension. Therefore, what is provided here is a record of the process of installing the latest version of Vim through source code.
The Vim source code repository address used here:https://github.com/vim/vim/
Compile and install the default version
Before compiling and installing, you must install related tools and dependencies
% sudo apt install git make clang libpython3-dev
Select the appropriate directory to execute the clone command
% git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
After the clone is successful, the vim directory will appear, and enter the src directory under this directory.
% cd vim/src
Execute the compilation (for speed, you can replace the execution% make -j4to compile in parallel)
% make
execute the test
% make test
Installed to /usr/local by default
% sudo make install
Enable Python3 extension support
After the above operations are completed, open the Makefile in this directory and find"CONF_OPT_PYTHON3 = --enable-python3interp"and uncomment the line, save.
Execute the command to update the compilation parametersmake reconfig
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