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Installation
To install Vem, just clone the source from GitHub and execute the Makefile inside:
git clone https://github.com/pacha/vem.git cd vem sudo make install
Now the commands:
vem for using Vem with Vim
nvem for using Vem with NeoVim
gvem for using Vem with the graphical version of Vim
should be available in your terminal.
Alternatively, you can download the latest version from here.
Execution without installation
Since the code is just a set of configuration files, you can execute Vem without installing it by running vim or nvim and directly passing the path to the main configuration file with the -u option:
vim -u vem/vemrc
Requirements
The only requirement to run Vem is to have Vim 7.4 or greater or, alternatively, any version of Neovim installed in the system.
Vim 7.4 or greater
You can easily check if you have Vim installed in your system by running the command:
vim --version
If Vim is installed, vim --version will also display the version and which features are enabled in it. Most Unix/Linux systems come with Vim already pre-installed. However, in some cases, the installed package is not the latest version or it is a minimal package that lacks some of the features offered by the full editor.
If vim is not installed or it is not a full version, you can install directly from the repositories of your Linux distribution:
- Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install vim
- Fedora
sudo dnf install vim
- Arch
sudo pacman -S vim
- openSUSE
sudo zypper -n install vim
Or using brew in the case of MacOS:
- MacOS
brew install vim
Neovim
To check if Neovim is installed, you can execute:
nvim --version
Unlike Vim, Neovim packages all the features enabled by default so if it is installed you should be good to go. However, you may double check that you have the following packages installed in your system:
* ``xsel`` or ``xclip`` in the case of Linux * ``pbcopy`` and ``pbpaste`` in the case of MacOS
since Neovim relies on them to make use of the system clipboard.