Re: write a very basic syntax file (follow up questions)

On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 12:05:32 PM UTC-6, Jose Caballero wrote:
>
> (1) I was suggested to search for the inline help
>
> :help new-filetype
>
> However, if I do that, I get this
>
> "filetype.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol][converted] 26L, 12168C
> E434: Can't find tag pattern
> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>
> And therefore after hitting ENTER I only get garbage.
> Why did that happen?
>

This looks like a similar error to that discussed here: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/tZPJ7mx2FQg/discussion

The cause was that plugins were not being loaded (in that thread, because of running vimtutor), and the help files were compressed, thus needing a plugin to uncompress them before using them.

Are you suppressing the loading of plugins somehow?

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