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*help.txt* Vim
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VIM - fake help file for vim-tiny
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The Vim online help is not installed on this Debian GNU/Linux system.
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WHY ?
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Because only the "vim-tiny" package is installed, whose sole purpose is to
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provide the vi command for base installations. As such, it contains a minimal
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version of Vim compiled with no graphical user interface and a small subset of
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features, in order to keep the package size small.
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Since the "vim-runtime" package is rather huge when compared to "vim-tiny",
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installing the latter does not automatically install the former.
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HOW TO GET A BETTER VIM
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To get a more featureful Vim binary (and a vim command, rather than just vi),
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install one of the following packages: vim, vim-nox, vim-motif, or vim-gtk3.
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HOW TO OBTAIN HELP
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Either browse the Vim online help via web starting at
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https://vimhelp.org/
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or ask your administrator to install the "vim-doc" package, which contains the
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HTML version of the online help and browse it starting at
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/usr/share/doc/vim/html/index.html
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or ask your administrator to install the "vim-runtime" package, re-run vi, and
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access the online help again. Note that all the above mentioned Vim
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variants other than "vim-tiny" automatically install the "vim-runtime"
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package. If you don't suffer from disk space shortage using one of them is
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recommended.
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