Vim source archives
If you want to join in and help developing Vim, you may want to get all the
original files. These are also used to compile Vim for systems not mentioned
on the download page. You need to get the archives mentioned below.
The preferred way is to use
Mercurial. You can easily get the latest version
with all the patches, or go back to an older version if you need to.
CVS and
Subversion only contain versions before 7.3.
- All files vim-##.tar.bz2 vim-7.3.tar.bz2
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The source and runtime files together in one big bzip2 compressed archive.
Only for Vim 6.0 and later. You can find it
in this directory.
Before 7.3 this excludes the extra and lang files.
For Vim 7.2 and earlier (For 7.3 and later these are included in the "All" archive):
- Extra files vim-##-extra.tar.gz vim-7.2-extra.tar.gz
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The extra archive. This contains source and runtime files that are not used
on Unix.
You can find them
here.
- Translations vim-##-lang.tar.gz vim-7.2-lang.tar.gz
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This contains translated messages and menu files.
Only for Vim 6 and 7, you can find it
here.
For Vim 6.x you can get the sources and runtime files separately in chunks
that fit on a floppy disk (if you still have them).
- Sources vim-##-src.tar.gz vim-6.4-src1.tar.gz vim-6.4-src2.tar.gz
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The Unix source files. You can find them
here.
For Vim 6 there are two parts. Not for Vim 7.
- Runtime files vim-##-rt.tar.gz vim-6.4-rt1.tar.gz vim-6.4-rt2.tar.gz
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The Unix runtime files. You can find them
here.
For Vim 6 there are two parts. Not for Vim 7.