| Tip 1 | Installing Vim 8 |
You probably have Vim installed on your system, but you may not have the latest version. In this tip, you’ll get some pointers on how to install version 8 of Vim.
You can find out which version of Vim you have installed using the --version flag. This excerpt shows the version currently installed on my Mac:
| => | $ vim --version |
| <= | VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Aug 15 2017 05:26:25) |
| | MacOS X (unix) version |
| | Included patches: 1-946 |
| | Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): |
| | +acl +file_in_path +mouse_sgr +tag_old_static |
| | +arabic +find_in_path -mouse_sysmouse -tag_any_white |
| | +autocmd +float ... |
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