On 04/08/10 11:02, [email protected] wrote:
Hello.
I have a freshly installed CentOS host with VIM 7.0.237 pre-installed.
When I launch vi (on this host vi is not a soft link to vim), and then try to
open a file using the sp command, nothing happens. No error, no file, no
nothing.
I have searched the faq, tips archive, and mailing list archive, all to no
avail.
Can anyone help? This must be something simple, no?
Thanks!
John
PS: I don't know if this is relevant (and it's not important to me) but the help command doesn't
work either. I get the errors "E433: No tags file" and "E149: Sorry no help for
help.txt".
If vi is not a softlink to Vim, then either it is another program, or it
is a stripped-down version. Does it have a :version command? If it
doesn't, then it is not Vim. If it does, what does it say?
Yet if it is a "different" version of Vim, it should still have help;
but maybe it hasn't got split-windows. In the latter case though, :split
should give you "E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version".
If vi is _not_ a different version of Vim, then try running Vim instead
(by naming it vim at the shell prompt). Has it got a help? If not, try
:helptags $VIMRUNTIME/doc . This sould rebuild the tags file for the
standard Vim help. Similarly, if you have a doc subdirectory in any
directory mentioned in your 'runtimepath' option setting, run :helptags
in it. And make sure that 'helpfile' points to $VIMRUNTIME/doc/help.txt
. If all this doesn't make :help work, then there's something wrong to
your CentOS Vim installation, in addition to the fact that Vim 7.0 is
years obsolete. You could compile your own Vim ("stable" 7.2.446 or
"bleeding-edge development" 7.3e) with the help of
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm
Best regards,
Tony.
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