First I tried an old way sudo apt-get install vim-gnome by default it installs Vim version to 7.3 with the patch about 545 when try to use command-t get error Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV Vim: Finished. Segmentation fault Found out this is due to bug in Vim. Tried to build latest Vim version from source according to these instructions. Got problem when compiling Vim with ruby support (and gvim). Checked many posts and all of them say to use mercurial (don't know why). Solution: Build Vim 7.4 from source using git mirror. Don't know how and why but with sources from git it worked for me