:help stopped working in vim after adding -doc to USE, giving: E433: No tags file E149: Sorry, no help for help.txt I found in the VIM FAQ that there should be a $RUNTIME/doc directory, where $RUNTIME expands to /usr/share/vim/vim70 inside VIM. I added doc to package.use for vim: $ cat /etc/portage/package.use # hopefully get online help for vim app-editors/vim doc -- and emerged VIM to no avail. I found a workaround: $ ebuild /usr/portage/app-editors/vim/vim-7.0.174.ebuild unpack $ cd /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/vim-7.0.174/work $ mv -v runtime/doc /usr/share/vim/vim70 after which :help does work. emerge should add this directory by itself and doesn't. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ rm -R /usr/share/vim/vim70/doc 2. $ emerge vim 3. $ ls /usr/share/vim/vim70/doc Actual Results: ls: cannot access /usr/share/vim/vim70/doc: No such file or directory Expected Results: arabic.txt if_perl.txt pi_tar.txt usr_11.txt vimdiff-pl.1 autocmd.txt if_pyth.txt pi_vimball.txt usr_12.txt vimdiff-pl.UTF-8.1 change.txt if_ruby.txt pi_zip.txt usr_20.txt vimdiff-ru.1 cmdline.txt if_sniff.txt print.txt usr_21.txt vimdiff-ru.UTF-8.1 debugger.txt if_tcl.txt quickfix.txt usr_22.txt vim-fr.1 debug.txt indent.txt quickref.txt usr_23.txt vim-fr.UTF-8.1 develop.txt index.txt quotes.txt usr_24.txt vim-it.1 diff.txt insert.txt recover.txt usr_25.txt vim-it.UTF-8.1 digraph.txt intro.txt remote.txt usr_26.txt vim.man doctags.c Makefile repeat.txt usr_27.txt vim.man.info editing.txt makehtml.awk rileft.txt usr_28.txt vim-pl.1 eval.txt maketags.awk russian.txt usr_29.txt vim-pl.UTF-8.1 evim.1 map.txt scroll.txt usr_30.txt vim-ru.1 evim-fr.1 mbyte.txt sign.txt usr_31.txt vim-ru.UTF-8.1 evim-fr.UTF-8.1 message.txt spell.txt usr_32.txt vimtutor.1 evim-it.1 mlang.txt sponsor.txt usr_40.txt vimtutor-fr.1 evim-it.UTF-8.1 motion.txt sql.txt usr_41.txt vimtutor-fr.UTF-8.1 evim-pl.1 netbeans.txt starting.txt usr_42.txt vimtutor-it.1 evim-pl.UTF-8.1 options.txt syntax.txt usr_43.txt vimtutor-it.UTF-8.1 evim-ru.1 os_390.txt tabpage.txt usr_44.txt vimtutor.man evim-ru.UTF-8.1 os_amiga.txt tags usr_45.txt vimtutor-pl.1 farsi.txt os_beos.txt tagsrch.txt usr_90.txt vimtutor-pl.UTF-8.1 filetype.txt os_dos.txt term.txt usr_toc.txt vimtutor-ru.1 fold.txt os_mac.txt tips.txt various.txt vimtutor-ru.UTF-8.1 getscript.txt os_mint.txt todo.txt version4.txt visual.txt gui.txt os_msdos.txt uganda.txt version5.txt windows.txt gui_w16.txt os_os2.txt undo.txt version6.txt workshop.txt gui_w32.txt os_qnx.txt usr_01.txt version7.txt xxd.1 gui_x11.txt os_risc.txt usr_02.txt vi_diff.txt xxd-fr.1 hangulin.txt os_unix.txt usr_03.txt vim.1 xxd-fr.UTF-8.1 hebrew.txt os_vms.txt usr_04.txt vim2html.pl xxd-it.1 help.txt os_win32.txt usr_05.txt vimdiff.1 xxd-it.UTF-8.1 help.txt.info pattern.txt usr_06.txt vimdiff-fr.1 xxd.man howto.txt pi_gzip.txt usr_07.txt vimdiff-fr.UTF-8.1 xxd-pl.1 if_cscop.txt pi_netrw.txt usr_08.txt vimdiff-it.1 xxd-pl.UTF-8.1 if_mzsch.txt pi_paren.txt usr_09.txt vimdiff-it.UTF-8.1 xxd-ru.1 if_ole.txt pi_spec.txt usr_10.txt vimdiff.man xxd-ru.UTF-8.1 The VIM elog text all have -- WARN: postinst Note that the English word lists are no longer installed by default. -- $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:01:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US" LC_ALL="en_US" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d alsa amd64 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus directfb dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam fbcon firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde lesstif libg++ live livecd mad matroska midi mikmod mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg multislot musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vim-with-x vorbis xanim xinerama xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
There is a typo in the work around, also the now broken unpack should be removed: $ ebuild /usr/portage/app-editors/vim/vim-7.0.174.ebuild unpack $ cd /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/vim-7.0.174/work/vim7 $ mv -v runtime/doc /usr/share/vim/vim70 $ cd /var/tmp/portage/app-editors $ rm -R vim-7.0.174
That directory is installed by the app-editors/vim-core package, not by app-editors/vim. Could you try installing vim-core again and see if you're still having this problem? Also, could you show what use flags vim and vim-core are currently being installed with? (e.g. the output of emerge -p vim vim-core).
$ emerge -pv vim vim-core These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-7.0.174 USE="gpm nls perl python vim-with-x -acl -bash-completion -cscope -minimal -ruby -vim-pager" 0 kB [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-core-7.0.174 USE="livecd nls -acl -bash-completion" 0 kB Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB -- $ rm -R /usr/share/vim/vim70/doc $ emerge vim-core (output too long to include, will attach log if wanted) $ ls /usr/share/vim/vim70/doc ls: cannot access /usr/share/vim/vim70/doc: No such file or directory -- The doc directory is in both vim and vim-core.
(In reply to comment #3) > [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-core-7.0.174 USE="livecd nls -acl > -bash-completion" 0 kB Ahh, now I see. You're using the "livecd" USE flag. For vim-core, that flag is specifically used to NOT install the help files, and to not pull in the app-vim/gentoo-syntax extra syntax files package (in the interest of reducing size the size of the livecd image). See Bug #65144. From /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc: livecd - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during livecd building. So, don't set the livecd flag for vim-core and you'll be fine. If you are trying to build a livecd, then apparently you should be able to stick an /etc/portage/package.use in your build chroot to override the livecd USE flag for app-editors/vim-core, though your mileage may vary. > The doc directory is in both vim and vim-core. Yes, that's because they use the same source package, but that isn't what is at issue here.
