vim 7 for Ubuntu Dapper e Breezy
Vim 7 is ready! After years of development this feature packed editor
is waiting for you.
Since Vim 6.4 many new features have been added.
To mention a few:
- Spell checking support for about 50 languages
- Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
- Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
- Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
- Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
- Vim script profiling
- Improved Unicode support
- Highlighting of cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
- Translated manual pages support.
- Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
- Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
- Printing multi-byte text Once you have installed Vim 7.0 you can find details about the changes since Vim 6.4 with “:help version7″.
Backported for Debian Sarge, for Breezy and Dapper
A special thanks to Vim Packaging Team
June 4th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Great, will you push this in the official backport tree? I would love to see it there… I am not fan of adding dozens of records in my sources.list…
June 7th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
How to upgrade? Do I need to remove the original Vim? What line to add in sources.list?
June 11th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
beautiful online information center. greatest work… thanks
June 11th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
lzap: All I did was add this line to my /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.freshnet.it/debian/ dapper/
Then I went into Synaptic (sorry am not yet familiar with the apt CLI tools yet) and pressed “Reload” Did a search for “vim” and it was there. Can’t remember whether I had to tell it to upgrade the package unfortunately. It should be easy to work out from there.
My problem is that I can’t get Vim to work correctly. Under normal conditions it reports that it can’t find any of colour schemes and none of the syntax highlighting works. Run this command though: gksu gvim and everything is fine!
Anyone got any ideas?
June 15th, 2006 at 10:06 am
Liam, you’ve put the correct line in your sources.list. Now you just need to run ‘apt-get install vim’ to install/upgrade.
June 18th, 2006 at 12:09 am
This sucks! http://www.freshnet.org/debian/./vim7/vim-common_7.0-017+3_i386.deb
^ That dot destroys it! I can’t do suod apt-get FFS! FIX IT!
June 18th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Ops ,my fault guys

Just fixed
SOrry again
Andy
June 30th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Kim Johansson: Your entitlement complex is disgusting.
Andy: Thanks for all the work and sharing it with us!
July 4th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Desde espanya, gracias por el trabajo.
July 5th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Thanks for the vim7 packages.
Nice job, they work beautifully.
I wish this could make it into the dapper backports, even as a separate package, ie : vim7 as opposed to vim.
I think the restriction not include vim7 in dapper is very short shighted.
July 12th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Thanks very much for making this availale.
You mention “intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.” but this version does not have support for ruby or python compiled in, so this won’t work, will it?
July 21st, 2006 at 12:55 pm
it’s great, thanks =)
July 25th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
I seem to have VIM installed but how does one run it? Pardon the lame question, but its dettering my Python learning.
July 25th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Ah ok, I didnt have gvim-python installed, problem cleared thanks. :]
July 29th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Big “Thank you”
September 17th, 2006 at 12:09 am
In reply to a question on color scheme and syntax highlighing:
I uncommented few lines in “vimrc” located in /etc/vim/ and it worked.
- Nirav
September 19th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Thanks a lot! This is a great repository . . . I love vim 7
September 20th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
great job. thank you very much, vim forever.
September 28th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Nice work, but unfortunately arrow keys don’t work in : (colon) mode in gvim. I get control characters in the command instead.