As a suggestion, if you "play" with settings, try this. - Open the config file - SaveAs ~this.conf20030121 - SaveAs this.conf - play away to your hearts content commenting your mods using the comment system included in the file. - for any removals comment them out and state why - for any new inclusions comment stating why Where this.conf is the name of the file you are playing with. If you do multiple changes over time the date appended acts as an old version system. If you see a mod six months old or more then the play must have been a success. The "~" forces the old file to be listed after all others. Backup, backup, backup, doesn't just mean using one method.
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:30, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I know, vi is either a link to or some version of vim (I don't > think the original vi had any :help command). If this is really so, I > think the help file is in /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt. If this is so, > try doing > > :set helpfile=/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt > > (inside vim). Also, inside vim do > > :echo $VIMRUNTIME > > This is a list of directories. Check that /usr/share/vim appears there, > and if not, add it (another way would be to create a link from > /usr/share/vim to /usr/share/vim/vim61; for some reason vim is not > installed according to the usual scheme). If all of this works, you may > put all of these settings in the .vimrc file in your home directory, or > in the system wide $VIM/vimrc (you can see the value of $VIM by doing > > :echo $VIM). > > If vi is not a version of vim just ignore everything I wrote... (you can > check this by doing :version inside vi(m). If this *is* vim, this will > also tell you where it looks for config files) > > Moshe > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Zane Minninger > > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:13 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [newbie] vi settings > > > > > > I am using vi at the command prompt. I'm not that proficient > > at it yet but > > MDK 8.2 had the right directory for the help file. The > > installation for > > 9.0 that I just installed gives me an error, can't find help.txt in > > /home/tv/....ETC/help.txt. Where can I change where the > > program looks for > > the help file? I looked for a vi.config and such. I found > > the main vi > > directory, but I have been know to "play" with settings and > > never get it to > > work again. If anyone knows where or how I can load vi to > > point to the > > correct files, I would greatly appreciate it. Its a real > > pain to open > > another file manually with such a long directory tree. > > Zane Minninger -- Michael
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