news [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Setup: Woody/testing > > After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that
So, vim 6. > have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on > several different platforms to be unusable. [...] > Some thing in this code cause a mess with debians setup. The > helpfiles when accessed in the normal way inside vim with :h <subject> > give this warning and then appear in binary. > > Error detected while processing function GZIP_read: > line 3: > E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off > E434: Can't find tag pattern > When I hit `enter' the file appears in binary format. This looks familiar... > Maybe my code can just be edited somehow so there is no conflict. > Otherwise I'd like to gunzip the helpfiles and redo the tags stuff. Now I remeber where I saw it... I saw it after I had upgraded from vim 5 to vim 6. To get the helptext back, I looked at the default vimrc provided for vim 6. The ending of my vimrc now is: if has("autocmd") filetype plugin on Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]