Ubuntu – Vim: Exit (:wq) with trailing exclamation mark ! What’s the purpose

Generally you can use the "build-dep" command of "apt-get" to fetch dependencies to a package. Use it like this:

sudo apt-get build-dep [package name]

Or more specifically for gvim:

sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome

After that you should be able to compile gvim/vim either without further intervention or with only small set of dependencies to resolve required by a newer version of gvim/vim that you are compiling.

As Marius noted one such dependency resolution is installing libssl-dev manually:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Enjoy!

The terminal output will be colored if the content of the file will be sent "as-is" to the terminal, without any modifications. However, vim and some other editors will escape meta characters in the text and instead maybe add some other color codes for their syntax highlighting, so this doesn't work.

Try dumping the file to the terminal with cat, this should work. Some simple editors or pagers like less might also work.

Edit: I have not found a way to let vim "pass-through" all the escape codes, but I have found this answer which links to this vim script, which parses the escape codes and uses the vim syntax highlighting to recreate the color codes in the output. According to its description, it should do exactly what you want (but I have not tested it).