Install

External Dependencies

Only Vim is required.

vim --version

Note

headlessvim does NOT depend on Vim‘s +clientserver feature. Also, +python and +python3 are NOT required.

Note

If Vim is not in the $PATH environment variable, you can indicate which Vim to use in the code (mentioned later).

Python Versions

headlessvim is tested on Python s below:

  • Python 2.6
  • Python 2.7
  • Python 3.2
  • Python 3.3
  • Python 3.4

Installation

The easy way (using package manager)

Using pip (recommended)

pip install headlessvim

The hard way (build from source)

Checkout from the repository, then the good old setup.py

git clone https://github.com/manicmaniac/headlessvim.git
cd headlessvim
python setup.py install

Windows Support

Sorry, Windows is not supported currently.