How to be productive in vim in 30 minutes

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:21:00 +0200

I had heard a lot of people say vim is very hard to learn, and got the impression that it will take a great investment to switch to using it.

While I have came to understand that they are right in that there is a lot of things to invest in to get really great at using vim, that will really pay back, I have also found out one thing that I see almost no-one mentioning:

How to compile vim for use with pyenv and vim-pyenv

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:05:00 +0200

This manifested itself in a bunch of error message from the python module in vim, ending with:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'vars'

I first thought it was an error in vim-pyenv and reported it (see that issue for more in-depth details). In summary it turns out that older versions of VIM indeed lack some attributes in its python module, so I figured I had to compile my own version, below are just my notes about how to do this, for future reference:

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How to be productive in vim in 30 minutes

How to compile vim for use with pyenv and vim-pyenv