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: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:14:31 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Help with error in vi and man Message-ID: <20050510151431.GU15665@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> <20050508003913 DOT GB24398 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <2a0cac56050509092041888614 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2a0cac56050509092041888614@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:20:55AM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote: >On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 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. >> >I apologize for not sending the expected information and format. LART accepted. > >I am running CYGWIN_NT-5.1, I got that from uname. > >I think that terminfo may in fact be the correct diagnosis. I found a >symlink of terminfo in /lib where terminfo was pointing to >../share/terminfo. There is no /share directory. If you look in my >cygcheck.out you will find that terminfo 5.4_20041009-1 is listed as >installed. So, is my installation of terminfo broken? What do I >need to do to fix it? Install terminfo. 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/