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Originally Posted by pan64
I think you misunderstood my post. The command :help cp-default will read the file mentioned and display the required help page. So you need to check that file if cp-default was missing. Or probably that file was missing...
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I've no doubt that I misunderstood your post. I struggle in these forums, I'm missing a foundation of knowledge in Linux so many of the posts I read seem to offer only cryptic clues to a solution... but I'm slowly getting there!
Your last post inspired me to have another stab at getting this to work!
First of all, when I opened Synaptic Package Manager and filtered it with "vim", the following applications were marked as installed: vim-common, vim-tiny and vim-doc... all with the same version number: 2:7.3547-7.
The contents of my /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/ folder is: help.txt, README.Debin and tags.
The README document stated that the help.txt was a "fake" help file and provided a link to the online help... It also mentioned the "vim-runtime" package.
I downloaded and installed vim-runtime, vim-gnome and all missing dependencies.
Now opening the Synaptic Package Manager and filtering with "vim" shows the following: vim-common, vim-tiny, vim-runtime, vim-gui-common, vim-gnome and vim-doc all with the same version number: 2:7.3547-7.
The original message on the opening page of vim (type :help cp-default<Enter> for info on this) is no longer being displayed.
Typing "vim" in a terminal will now start the vim editor. (Previously, I had to type vi to start the vim editor.)
Everything seems to be working as it should.
Thanks for your help.
Graham