1. This vulnerability affects all versions of Vim prior to version 8.1.1365, which means it affects your Mac, too, if you’re using the version that ships with macOS 10.14.5, which is 8.0.1283 (if.
2. Long press the POWER key without releasing it. Short press the ‘Reset’ key and release it. Count for 2 to 3 seconds, then release the POWER key to enter into Upgrade Mode. You will see the sys-led turn ON when you’ve entered Upgrade Mode.
3. The command, command -v vim, shows the alias was created when its output is as follows. Alias vim=/usr/local/bin/vim The same VIM RC files are used by both versions of vim. The advantage of pointing to the symbolic link instead of the binary executable is that the alias does not need to be updated on each upgrade of MacVim, which is often.

MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X that is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the older Carbon port of Vim. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (⌘-Z, ⌘-V, ⌘-A, ⌘-G, etc.).

vim on CentOS 7 is version 7.4 with patches 1-160:

How to upgrade it to version 8 which is the latest major version?

Update on Oct 23 2018: the repository introduced in the original method is not available any more, you should not follow the method any more.

Check other packages, such as this one https://centos.pkgs.org/7/ghettoforge-plus-x86_64/vim-enhanced-8.0.003-1.gf.el7.x86_64.rpm.html .

Or compile Vim by yourself. Checkout the source code at https://github.com/vim/vim by

git clone https://github.com/vim/vim

and build and install it by

Gvim For Mac Os X

Upgrade Vim Machine

1. make # to run configure, compile and link
2. make install # to do installation in /usr/local

You may use this CentOS 7 repository on Fedora Copr for Vim 8 builds.

By these commands on CentOS 7.

Vim Text Editor Mac

Add this repository:

Upgrade Vim to vim 8:

After it is successful, your Vim should be version 8.0 now: