Re: Vim help, tags, sudo
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:30:02 +0200, jeremy bentham wrote:
> This could be a vim question, but since sudo's involved I'll
> start here.
>
> I am thrashing about, trying to get wheezy going on a new machine
> (well, new to me. I think the huckster term-of-art is
> "pre-owned": I had the pleasure of wiping dollarbill inc's crap
> off it).
>
> Anyway, I got vim installed, opened it up and wanted to look at
> the docs for something.
>
> :h <whatever>
>
> resulted in, "E433: no tags file"
>
> I've been using vim for a long time, upgrading as time went
> along, and I'd never thought about the mechanics of help. So I
> had to go looking.
>
> Ctags wasn't installed, so I got that and ran it on the vim doc
> directory. It didn't make a tags file, but something that looks
> like a config file for who-knows-what.
>
> So I looked at another machine, decided that the doc directories
> were sufficiently similar (vim 7.1 versus 7.3) and copied the
> tags file over. Kludgy, I know, and generally a Bad Idea (tm).
> But I figured any damage would be limited to something already
> broken....
>
> It looks like a permissions problem, but I can't see any
> difference in that area between the machines. (Admittedly, I'm
> comparing Lenny to Wheezy, but it this instance should that make
> any difference?)
>
> Now I have help with "sudo vi", but not as a normal user.
>
> I'm enquiring here because I'm wondering, is this symptomatic of
> some other problem that's going to leap on me from a Very High
> Place?
>
> Ok, I want my vim docs too! I think vim would sing, if you found
> the right configuration, and I keep learning stuff, control-]'ing
> about the help files. Having to keep a root session around and
> switching to it just wouldn't be the same. And I wouldn't know
> why it's not working the way it's supposed to.
Which version of vim did you install? It wasn't the "tiny" version,
right? Did you install vim-docs? (not sure if that's necessary)
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