Vim 8.1 is a minor release — a handful of new features have landed since Vim 8.0. The big one for me is that Vim 8.1 can run a terminal inside a Vim window. That sounds great. So I decided to put Vim 8.1 on my main machine.

Got some time to write dumb code again recently, so I opened Vim. First order of business was updating plugins, using Vim-plug. And right after the update, problems showed up… What the hell is this cursed color scheme?

First off, the Vim that ships with Ubuntu 14.04 doesn’t support Python 3. Run: vim --version | grep python and you get: -python3 Two ways around it: compile it yourself with the right flags, or just use a ready-made PPA: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pi-rho/dev sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vim After installing, don’t forget to run that command again and check whether python3 has turned into a plus sign.