On Thu, 10 Apr 2025, Tim Johnson wrote:
> It looks like the path to help.txt is hardcoded in vim and the ubuntu install
> put it elsewhere.
>
> A symlink took care of everything.
No it is not and a default Ubuntu version works just fine. You really
should not set $VIMRUNTIME
Please read
:
On 4/9/25 23:19, Igbanam Ogbuluijah wrote:
FWIW :h helpworks on OS X with $VIMRUNTIMEas
/opt/homebrew/share/vim/vim91— which I think is the equivalent path on
Linux
*Igbanam*
*It looks like the path to help.txt is hardcoded in vim and the ubuntu
install put it elsewhere.*
*A symlink too
FWIW :h help works on OS X with $VIMRUNTIME as /opt/homebrew/share/vim/vim91
— which I think is the equivalent path on Linux
*Igbanam*
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Why are you setting $VIMRUNTIME? Please check first if your vim works fine
> when starting with vi
Why are you setting $VIMRUNTIME? Please check first if your vim works fine when
starting with vim --clean
Thanks
Chris
> Am 10.04.2025 um 00:03 schrieb Tim Johnson :
>
>
>> On 4/9/25 10:14, Tim Johnson wrote:
>> Using vim and gvim 9.1 on ubuntu 24.04
>>
>> My local resources are at ~/.vim
On 4/9/25 10:14, Tim Johnson wrote:
Using vim and gvim 9.1 on ubuntu 24.04
My local resources are at ~/.vim and system resources at
/usr/share/vim/vim91/
:help does not work
It returns E149: Sorry, no help for help.txt
:echo $VIMRUNTIME returns /usr/share/vim
Using vim and gvim 9.1 on ubuntu 24.04
My local resources are at ~/.vim and system resources at
/usr/share/vim/vim91/
:help does not work
It returns E149: Sorry, no help for help.txt
:echo $VIMRUNTIME returns /usr/share/vim/vim91/ (set in .vimrc)
:set path retu
