homega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: homega> ~$ vim homega> :help homega> Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found homega> homega> in fact there's not vim/ (nor vi/, nor nvi/) dir within homega> /usr/share, and I haven't been able to find that help.txt so homega> far. Likewise, vim installed no man pages at all; vi.1.gz and homega> ex.1.gz are symlinks to nvi.1.gz and nex.1.gz respectively.
Both the help files and the man pages are in the vim-rt package, which is Recommended by vim. Try installing vim-rt. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?" "Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"

