Vim (Vi IMproved) for Linux Ubuntu (Vim 8.0) Released. How to install Vim 8 On Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 Systems. Vim (Vi IMproved) version 8.0 is the first major Vim release in ten years. Vim 8 brings new features, many small improvements and lots of bug fixes.
Vim (Vi IMproved) is an open-source, advanced command line text editor for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Vim can now exchange messages with other processes in the background. This makes it possible to have servers do work and send back the results to Vim. Vim can now start a job, communicate with it and stop it. This is very useful to run a process for completion, syntax checking, etc. Channels are used to communicate with the job. Jobs can also read from or write to a buffer or a file.
Vim 8.0 brings the following new features:
- Asynchronous I/O support, channels, JSON
- Jobs
- Timers
- Partials, Lambdas and Closures
- Packages
- New style testing
- Viminfo merged by timestamp
- GTK+ 3 support
- MS Windows DirectX support
Install Vim 8.0 on Linux Ubuntu
Ubuntu users can install Vim 8.0 through its Github repository or via PPA:
Install Vim 8.0 Using Git
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Vim on Ubuntu using Git:
sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim
./configure
sudo apt install ncurses-dev
sudo yum install ncurses-devel
make
sudo make install
Install Vim 8.0 Using PPA
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Vim on Ubuntu using PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vim
sudo apt update
sudo apt install vim
That’s all. If you want to uninstall it, use the commands below:
sudo apt remove vim
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:jonathonf/vim
Once Vim is installed, run the command below to check Vim version.
vim --version