Vim compressed help doc files

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Sep 16 06:12:50 UTC 2007


Doug Wyatt:
>>> I recently upgraded to Fedora 7 and I've discovered that
>>> Vim's built-in help files don't display. 

Tim:
>> Works here, so it sounds like you've got a problem with your system,
>> rather than vim, in itself.  You might want to try verifying the
>> installation (see the rpm man file for verify instructions).
 

Karsten Hopp:
> You're probably using /bin/vi instead  of /usr/bin/vim.
> Starting vim by running 'vi' as root can cause this as the alias vi=vim isn't set for root-

Works either way for me, no problems.  The only differences I see is the
use of colour and inverse video.

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