Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <2a0cac5605050717271c42abd1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 18:27:59 -0600 From: Trevor Osatchuk Reply-To: Trevor Osatchuk To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help with error in vi and man In-Reply-To: <20050507153550.GE11243@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <2a0cac560505062159455d4f01@mail.gmail.com> <20050507153550.GE11243@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j480SMaZ031939 On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: > >When starting up vi/vim I get the following error: > > > >E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo > >'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are: > >builtin_ansi > >builtin_xterm > >builtin_iris-ansi > >builtin_dumb > >defaulting to ansi > > > >Help does not work for vim I get the error: > > > >E433: No tags file > >E149: Sorry, no help for help.txt > > > >Also when I type in the man command, man ls for example, all I get is > >(END) and no man page. Like it paged to the end. I don't currently > >have a pager environment variable. My manpath is correct. > > > >Any ideas? > > Run the cygwin version of vim, i.e., /usr/bin/vim? You're obviously > running some other version. "which vim" would probably show which > version you're running. > Obviously is a strong word! Which vim yeilds /usr/bin/vim. I have seen these symtoms in other posts, though no solutions. Thanks for your help! fybar -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/