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bpanon

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Registered: 2010-12-02

Posts: 2

Vim Error has got me confused

I'm getting error E152. When I try to run helptags on the docs directory, I get two errors with the same number, saying

E152: Cannot open /usr/share/vim/vim72/doc/tags for writing
E152: Cannot open /usr/share/vim/vim72/doc/tags-ja for writing

I'm not even sure what the heck this is for. But I need to run helptags. I found a thread on this forum and the guy was having the same problem, but running ctags -R * fixed it for him. I ran that command in the doc folder and tried again - it didn't work.

Any ideas? any help is greatly appreciated.

frabjous

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 367

Re: Vim Error has got me confused

Unless you're running as root, you can't write to /usr/share/vim/vim72/doc/ which is required for running helptags on the files there.

I'm a bit perplexed by this description:

I'm not even sure what the heck this is for. But I need to run helptags.

How can you know you need to run helptags, but not know why?

If you know what files you need to run helptags on, my advice would be to copy them into your local ~/.vim/doc/ folder and then run helptags on that folder, rather than trying to run helptags on the system folder.

If you must, you could run vim as root and run helptags on the system-wide doc/ folder, but I'm advise against it unless you know why you'd need to and "what it's for".

And what's with vim72? Has it been that long since you updated? The upgrade to vim 7.3 happened months ago....

bpanon

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Registered: 2010-12-02

Posts: 2

Re: Vim Error has got me confused

I installed several plugins. That's why I'm not sure which it is for. I wanted to update help tags for tails.

And it is vim 7.2 because that's what I got from ubuntu. I'll update it.

How can I run helptags then? Should I move everything to ~/,vim?

Thank you