Re: vim :help error?
great
solution is implemented and works
thanks
(but this is a typical development bug - but its hard to figure the solution when you dont know that you have to deal with an old bugfix)
martin
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:39:15AM -0500, dman wrote:
> 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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