Update built-in vim on Mac OS X

Question

I know this might be more appropriate at Ask Different, but as I tried adding tags there, there was no vim tag, only macvim. So I figured I might g

Answer 1

A note to romainl's answer: aliases don't work together with sudo because only the first word is checked on aliases. To change this add another alias to your .profile / .bashrc:

alias sudo='sudo '

With this change sudo vim will behave as expected!

Answer 2

Like Eric, I used homebrew, but I used the default recipe. So:

brew install mercurial
brew install vim

And after restarting the terminal homebrew's vim should be the default. If not, you should update your $PATH so that /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin. E.g. add the following to your .profile:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH