Vim 8.0 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

Vim 8.0 released after more than a year since it was last released. This release gives you interesting new features, such as channels, JSON, Jobs, Timers, Partials, Lambdas, Closures, Packages and more. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.

Vim 8.0 Update

  • Jobs
  • DirectX support for Microsoft users
  • Support for asynchronous I/O, channels, JSON
  • New style testing
  • Lambdas and Closures
  • Partials
  • Packages
  • estamp
  • Timers (asynchronous)
  • Support for GTK+ 3
  • Viminfo merged by tim

See changelog for complete lists

How to install Vim 8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 and other Linux OSes

On Ubuntu 16.04

Remove Vim 8.0

On Debian and Linux Mint

On RHEL, CentOS and Fedora

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