On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:00:04PM +0200, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
| hi
|
| i cant get :help to work in vim.
|
| i get this error:
|
| "help.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 8L, 3051C
| Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz":
| E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off
| E434: Can't find tag pattern
| Hit ENTER or type command to continue
|
| how do i fix this?
Old versions (<=5.8) of vim couldn't automatically handle .gz files.
Wichert (the package maintainer) put a slew of neat autocommands in
/etc/vimrc to recognize, and then transparently (de)compress the
files.
Current versions (>=6.0) of vim handle gzipped files automatically,
and also set the 'nomodifiable' flag on help files. The nomod flag
causes the old autocommands to fail. The vimrc in the new package
doesn't have those autocommands.
The solution :
Edit /etc/vimrc and remove all gzip related autocommands.
-D
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