Bug#299837: vim can't find its help files

Matthijs Mohlmann Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl>, 299837@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:25:19 +0100


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David Lawyer wrote:
> Package: vim-common
> Version _1%3a6.3-058+1_all
>
> If I type :help I get a message that
> /usr/share/vim/vim63/doc/help.txt.gz can't be found.  That's true,
> because what exists is /usr/share/vim/vim63/doc/help.txt.
> So what's wrong is that vim is looking for a compressed file (.gz)
> while what exists in not compressed.  This problem happened after I
> downloaded a new version of vim using apt-get.
>
> 			David Lawyer
>
>

Hi,

I've tried to reproduce this bug, but i couldn't reproduce this bug on
my box.

Can you provide some more information:
Did you modify your /etc/vim/vimrc or $HOME/.vimrc ?

Matthijs

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