Installing Vim 7.2 Beta on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libgnome-dev libgnomeui-dev libgtk-2.0-dev 
./configure --enable-gui=gnome2  --enable-pythoninterp --enable-cscope
make
sudo make install

It actually took me some time to find out what dev libraries are needed in order to build Gvim (it isn't documented anywhere as far as I can see).

Vim 7.2 seems to perform a lot better and it feels kind of nice to be on the edge of development :-)