I had heard a lot of people say vim is very hard to learn, and got the impression that it will take a great investment to switch to using it.
While I have came to understand that they are right in that there is a lot of things to invest in to get really great at using vim, that will really pay back, I have also found out one thing that I see almost no-one mentioning:
This manifested itself in a bunch of error message from the python module in vim, ending with:
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'vars' I first thought it was an error in vim-pyenv and reported it (see that issue for more in-depth details). In summary it turns out that older versions of VIM indeed lack some attributes in its python module, so I figured I had to compile my own version, below are just my notes about how to do this, for future reference: