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. -- Dave Williams | "Awk!" he sed, bashfully. "Do I _have_ to [email protected] | learn perl?"
