Need Help for help

[Tim Johnson]

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 returns
path=.,/usr/include,,,/usr/share/vim/vim91/doc/,~/.vim/doc/

The following lines at the end of .vimrc may be relevant

let $VIMRUNTIME="/usr/share/vim/vim91/"
execute pathogen#infect()
set path+=/usr/share/vim/vim91/doc/
set path+=/home/tim/.vim/doc/

I have used vim extensively in the past but am retired so haven't used
vim help in ages.

Pathogen is also new to me

I would like to use help from /usr/share/vim/vim91/, ~/.vim/doc,
~/.vim/docs and ~/.vim/bundle/<app>

I look forward to resolving this issue

thanks

tim

[Tim Johnson]

More problems

:h help

returns Sorry, help file "/usr/local/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not foundd?

Say what? I set $VIMUNTIME to usr/share/vim/vim91/ and help.txt is at
/usr/share/vim/vim91/doc/

More fun

[Christian Brabandt]

Why are you setting $VIMRUNTIME? Please check first if your vim works fine when starting with vim --clean

Thanks
Chris

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[Igbanam Ogbuluijah]

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

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[Tim Johnson]

On 4/9/25 23:19, Igbanam Ogbuluijah wrote:

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

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.

Thanks[Solved]

[Christian Brabandt]

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

:h $VIMRUNTIME

to find out more about it.

Thanks,
Christian
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