From: Doug Kearns <djkea2@...>
Date: 2002-04-05T09:45:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: TextPad replacement for Linux?

Tobias, I hope you don't mind the direct email.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Reif" <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:02 AM
Subject: [OT] Re: TextPad replacement for Linux?


> james@rubyxml.com wrote:
>
>
> > I went for Vi/Vim.

Excellent.

> OK. Fired it up:

vim or gvim? I'd stick to gvim if I was on Windows 95/98/ME.

> --------------------------------------------------
>    ~     WARNING: Windows 95/98/ME detected
>    ~ type  :help windows95<Enter>  for info on this
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> did this, but got
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>    E433: No tags file
>    E149: Sorry, no help for windows95
>    Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> ... not a good start :(

Nothing worthwhile was ever easy :-) It sounds like you didn't download
the runtime files which include the help.

> Was 6.0; is 6.1 worth a try?

Yep, but this is not your problem. Just head to
http://vim.sf.net/download.php and download the self-installing
executable.

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim61.exe

Don't forget to join the mailing lists http://www.vim.org/mail.html
If you need any help feel free to email me. Hmm, I feel a little like an
evangelist today :-)

Regards,
Doug