Re: Vim help, tags, sudo
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:24:34PM -0000, Frank Miles wrote:
> 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)
Actually, yeah, vim-tiny and vim-runtime, which latter, according to
apt(titude) should give me the docs. And now that I look, I also
have vim and vim-common.
And, looking at the lenny machine, it has the same thing. So I
don't think that's the problem.
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Dave Williams dnw@eskimo.com
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