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Verifying and troubleshooting the installation

Regardless of the platform you used to install Vim, it's good to make sure that, with Vim, all the right features enabled. On a command line, run the following command:

$ vim --version

You will see the following output, with a set of features having a + and a - in front of them:

In the preceding screenshot, you can see that my Vim was actually compiled with Python 2 support (+python) instead of Python 3 support (-python3). To correct the issue, I'd have to either recompile Vim with +python3 enabled or find a package which distributes a compiled version of Vim with +python3 enabled.

For a list of all features Vim can have enabled, see :help feature-list .

For instance, if we wanted to recompile Vim 8.1 with Python 3 support on Linux, we would do the following:

$ git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
$ cd vim/src
$ ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-python3interp
$ make
$ sudo make install

We're passing the --with-features=huge flag in order to compile Vim with most features enabled. However, --with-features=huge does not install language bindings, so we need to explicitly enable Python 3.

In general, if your Vim is not behaving like other Vim installations (including behavior described in this book), you might be missing a feature.

Depending on your system and features you require, the process might be slightly or vastly different. A quick web search along the lines of Installing Vim <version> with +<feature> on <operating system> should help.