Hi happy people. In vim, if I type :help I get Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt" not found Press RETURN or enter command to continue I get this _exact_ same error message if i type any other help command, eg :help uganda
The help files are in the vim-rt package, /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/*.txt.gz (I'm running potato, vim-rt version 5.6.070-1, vim version 5.6.070-1) Intriguingly, if I uncompress the doc files (gzip -d /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/*.txt.gz), typing :help yields "help.txt" [readonly] 1297L, 61010C There is only one matching tag File "/usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt.gz" does not exist Press RETURN or enter command to continue and then it displays the help file! But if I type :help uganda the response is "help.txt" [readonly] 1297L, 61010C There is only one matching tag File "/usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/uganda.txt.gz" does not exist Press RETURN or enter command to continue and it gives the general help file (help.txt[.gz]), instead of telling me how to help Ugandan orphans. If I have all the .txt files compressed except for help.txt, typing :help uganda yields "uganda.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 16L, 3666C 16 lines filtered Error detected while processing BufReadPost Auto commands for "*.gz": Invalid expression: ":doautocmd BufReadPost " . %:r Press RETURN or enter command to continue and _then_ it gives me the correct help file. This works, but it's suboptimal, because next time i upgrade, apt-get won't know to remove the old help.txt (because only help.txt.gz is in the vim-rt packge.) Has anyone run into this problem and solved it? thanks in advance :) Aaron (in san francisco, land of fog)
