Re: clearing search buffer in vim
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:22:13AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Sun, 25 May 2003 08:28:17AM +0100, Colin Watson insinuated:
> > The vim help system is *fantastic*, possibly one of the most
> > comprehensive documentation systems for any piece of free software
> > (or indeed software) I've used. It seems to be available in
> > /usr/share/doc/vim/html now as well, although I prefer having it
> > right there in the editor.
>
> right ... this is one of those things i've never gotten working.
> whenever i do a :h anything in vim, i get an
>
> Sorry, help file "/etc/vim/vim57/doc/help.txt" not found
>
> error. reinstalling vim does nothing. /etc/vim/vim57 does not exist.
> how can i redirect vim to telling me where the help files are?
It Just Works for me. Do you have something weird in ~/.vimrc or
/etc/vim/vimrc that's overriding the default, or is $VIMRUNTIME set in
your environment?
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
Reply to: