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Jonathan
Asked: 2014-09-03 05:47:52 +0800 CST

Is there a PPA for gvim > 7.4.338?

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The breakindent feature is the greatest thing ever, but it's in 7.4.338. The latest version in the Ubuntu repos is just 7.4, I think. I notice Arch has a package for it, but I can't seem to find one for Ubuntu yet. I'm hopeless with compiling things, otherwise I'd compile it myself.

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  1. Best Answer

    There is the pi-rho/dev PPA, which has up-to-date vim packages.

    (The current default version for trusty is 8.0.0134.)

    The PPA is available for currently supported releases.

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  2. Vim 8.0 (just released, 2016-09-12) can be installed from a PPA in Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vim
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vim
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  3. Today I found this one

    ppa:pkg-vim/vim-daily

    It uses the new dailybuild function from launchpad to automatically grab the upstream source and build if there has been a change. So nearly no maintenance needed from ubuntu side.

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