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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:42:04 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: vimtutor
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In-Reply-To: <001501c186c5$38e9a4c0$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk>; from fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:36:56AM -0000

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:36:56AM -0000, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote:
> (a) What should I get as a response to vimtutor <Enter>? Both at the bash
> prompt and in a rxvt terminal window I get
> 
>     tempfile: not found
>     vim6: Command not found
> 
> followed by a text tutorial several pages long, evidently viewed from within
> vim itself. Is this "right" (the error messages are a bit non-optimal, but
> something is working)?

It's ok.  `man vimtutor' gives a hint what should happen.  The above
messages are to be ignored.

> (b) I have earlier memories of a multi-coloured Help facility / tutorial for
> vim, that was interactive (you could work through it and press links, that
> worked). Maybe this preceded all the recent vim updates of the past couple
> of months. I can't find it now. Please can anybody remind me what this was,
> and how to get there?

You're talking about the internal vim help:

	:help<RET>

Corinna

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