On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:05:26AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: | Hi, | | I recently upgraded to Vim 6.0 on a mostly-testing system, and seem | to have lost the ability to access Vim help. I caught part of a Vim | 6.0 thread on here some weeks ago, but don't recall whether this was | addressed. | | When I try to access Help I get the following: | | "help.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 8L, 3051C | Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": | E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off | E434: Cannot find tag pattern | Hit Enter or type command to continue
Do you have the old /etc/vimrc hanging around? If so, at the very least comment out the section on autocommands for gzip files. With vim 5 the vimrc did lots of automatic running around to uncompress the file, view/edit it, and then compress it again. Vim 6 does this automatically. HTH, -D
