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)
