How to upgrade vim to version 8 on CentOS 7

Posted 2021-01-02

同学们好，现在很多vim重度使用者呢，追求把vim打造成一流的IDE,于是很多人想着把vim升级到8.0
但是编译安装呢又很麻烦，现在就分享一下使用yum把vim从7.0升级到8.0的经验

[[email protected] ~]# vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Dec 21 2016 17:00:20)
Included patches: 1-160
How to upgrade it to version 8 which is the latest major version?

1）Add this repository

[[email protected] ~]# curl -L https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mcepl/vim8/repo/epel-7/mcepl-vim8-epel-7.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/mcepl-vim8-epel-7.repo

2）Upgrade Vim to vim 8

[[email protected] ~]# yum update vim*
After it is successful, your Vim should be version 8.0 now:

3）Check

[[email protected] ~]# vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Aug 2 2017 16:29:21)
Included patches: 1-839