This Software Collection is providing Vim 9 rpm packages for CentOS 7.
When using specific plugins, the latest Vim version may be required. However, the version shipped with CentOS is a bit outdated and a rebuild from sources is needed.
To ease the use and installation of the latest upstream Vim version on CentOS 7, this Software Collection was created.
Using Github actions, sources are cloned from official Vim repo every night, and a rebuild of the last tagged version is performed if needed. Once the workflow execution is complete, a new release is created.
Even though minimal functionnal testing is performed before releasing a new version, these packages are not production ready and may crash or introduce bugs or regressions.
Therefore, this Software Collection should be used when new features outweighs the need of stability. As a general advice, the Vim package shipped with CentOS 7 should not be removed from the system when using this collection.
This software collection can be installed alongside the official Vim package.
To install the collection tree structure, install at least packages
aje-vim91 and aje-vim91-runtime.
Vim binaries can then be installed using packages aje-vim91-vim-common and
aje-vim91-vim. Package aje-vim91-vim-gtk is optionnal and installs GUI
binaries such as gVim.
Once installation is complete, you can enable this SCL with :
scl enable aje-vim91
and start using Vim as you are used to.