Looking for a simple place to download VIM

Question

It was recommended to me to get a VIM editor for Python. I have found many websites that have much content concerning VIM, Not knowing all that I need to make this editor work

can someone recommend a site that has it all in one download.

Don

Former Member · Accepted Answer

Vi is an editor designed to be run from the command line, so you type "vi example.py" at the command line to edit a file called example.py.

If you're planning to work from the GUI, you might prefer to use one of the many IDEs that support Python, for example Netbeans, An IDE gives you a complete GUI environment for editing, running and debugging code. Try Googling for "Python IDE" to get some idea of how many alternatives are available under Linux.

Problemchild · Answer

Good question depends on what operating system or machine you are using on many systems the VI editor is in fact VIM so you may already have it,

are you using vi already and is it all sorts of colours when editing say your program or some such ??

Other than that I might assume you are using the RPI in which case you can do this snippit

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vim-runtime sudo apt-get install vim

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Former Member · Answer

I'm not familiar with gvim, but apparently you can install it with sudo apt-get install vim-gtk and the command to start it is gvim.