On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:24:34PM -0000, Frank Miles wrote: > 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)
Actually, yeah, vim-tiny and vim-runtime, which latter, according to apt(titude) should give me the docs. And now that I look, I also have vim and vim-common. And, looking at the lenny machine, it has the same thing. So I don't think that's the problem. -- Dave Williams d...@eskimo.com
