title: Update built-in vim on Mac OS X
body: <p>I know this might be more appropriate at Ask Different, but as I tried adding tags there, there was no <code>vim</code> tag, only <code>macvim</code>. So I figured I might get a better audience here.</p>
  
  <p>In the Terminal, I do the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ vim --version
  VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Jan 31 2010 13:33:49)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I browse to <a href="http://www.vim.org" rel="noreferrer">http://www.vim.org</a>, I see a news item</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Vim 7.3 released!</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>How do I update my built-in vim? I would very much like to do it cleanly (i.e. no duplicate installations, or any additional downloads, no macports, etc.)</p>
  
  <p>I considered using Mercurial (as I already use it for other things), as per the instructions <a href="http://www.vim.org/download.php" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com.hg/ vim
  $ cd vim/src
  $ make
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I think that would make a duplicate installation. Despite my "clean" requirement as mentioned above, "unclean" solutions are also welcome, since maybe there really is no other way.</p>