Re: Vim editor

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

Jesse Goerz <jgoerz@linuxfreemail.com> writes:
JG> I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some
JG> problems.  When I type help it says:
JG> 
JG>  "Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found"
JG> 
JG> I tried typing help version5 and it says: 
JG> 
JG> No tags file
JG> Sorry, no help for version5  
JG> 
JG> Am I missing a configuration file?  I installed the vim .deb
JG> package version 5.6.70.

Hmm.  Did you install the vim-rt package, too?  I think it contains a
lot of the data like the help files that's the same regardless of
which options vim itself is compiled with.

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