Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 20:39:13 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Help with error in vi and man Message-ID: <20050508003913.GB24398@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <2a0cac560505062159455d4f01 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20050507153550 DOT GE11243 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <2a0cac5605050717271c42abd1 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2a0cac5605050717271c42abd1@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:27:59PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: >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. Ok. Perhaps your terminfo installation is screwed up or nonexistent. If you're scouring old posts then maybe you've come across the concept of following the instructions at http://cygwin.com/problems.html , as has already been sugested. These instructions would help you send problems in such a way that we wouldn't have to guess about things like what version of vim you're running or whether you even have terminfo installed. cgf -- 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/