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bendavis78

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Registered: 2014-06-21

Posts: 41

gvim-pythonsix: Vim with simultaneous python2 and python3 support

I've uploaded a PKGBUILD for gvim-pythonsix. It's basically the base gvim PKGBUILD, but with --enable-pythoninterp=yes and --enable-python3interp=yes. This allows you to run a single vim instance and use either python2 or python3 as needed:

:python import sys; print sys.version
2.7.8 (default, Jul  1 2014, 17:30:21)
[GCC 4.9.0 20140604 (prerelease)]

:python3 import sys; print(sys.version)
3.4.1 (default, May 19 2014, 17:23:49)
[GCC 4.9.0 20140507 (prerelease)]

I've been using this for a few months now without any apparent problems. Most of my plugins are managed using vundle.

Note: this pkgbuild doesn't have the non-gui vim package, if someone wants to add it in please be my guest :-)

Last edited by bendavis78 (2014-08-22 20:49:03)