*help.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2010 Aug 15 VIM - fake help file for vim-tiny The Vim online help is not installed on this Debian GNU/Linux system. WHY ? Because the "vim-runtime" package containing it is not installed. This may happen if your administrator has chosen to install as only Vim variant the "vim-tiny" package. The "vim-tiny" package contains a minimal version of Vim compiled with no graphical user interface and only a small subset of features in order to keep small the package size. Since the "vim-runtime" package is rather huge when compared to "vim-tiny", installing the latter does not automatically install the former. HOW TO OBTAIN HELP either browse the Vim online help via web starting at http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/help.html#help.txt or ask your administrator to install the "vim-doc" package, which contains the HTML version of the online help and browse it starting at /usr/share/doc/vim/html/index.html or ask your administrator to install the "vim-runtime" package, re-run vim and access the online help again. Note that all Vim variants other then "vim-tiny" automatically install the "vim-runtime" package, if you don't suffer from disk space shortage using one of them is recommended.