My vimtutor is in portuguese. I don't know why, because my Windows OS is in english, so as everything else. I don't remember to have chosen "portuguese" anywhere in the vim installing process.
How do I change it to english?
2 Answers
1'st method
Run vimtutor (from command line) with 2 letter language code like:
vimtutor en (for English)
vimtutor pt (for Portuguese)
etc...
2'nd method
Open tutor with different language with:
vim /usr/share/vim/vim74/tutor/tutor (for English)
vim /usr/share/vim/vim74/tutor/tutor.pt (for Portuguese)
etc...
(The same default path applies to Cygwin on Windows. You may want to change vim74 part if you have different version)
Using this method you may actually want to copy the file somewhere else first and then open the copy, because you are going to modify it.
3'rd method
Vimtutor opens in Portuguese by default because you probably have some environmental variable set to Portugese like: LC_ALL, LANG, LANGUAGE (check it with env | grep -P 'LC_ALL|LANG'. You may want to change it like this:
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
and then run vimtutor.
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Note that directly editing the tutor files (your "2nd method") is probably not a good idea. The
vimtutorprogram copies this file to a temporary file, so you can muck about at your leisure and not foul anything up ;-) I recommend you do that, instead. Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 22:04 -
Yes, it is written in the answer (copying the file somewhere else).– KossakCommented Aug 13, 2015 at 23:32
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By the way, the language code has minimally, not necessarily, two letters. Open, e. g., the vimtutor in Bavarian with "vimtutor bar". Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 22:50
This method works well:
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
For the Russian language, for example, then it is necessary to dial the following line:
vimtutor ru
for Portuguese
vimtutor pt
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Thanks for your effort but both of the methods you describe here were described one year ago in the other answer.– statoxCommented Sep 14, 2016 at 11:34
vimtutor enstarts it in english, however this is not the default. If I dovimtutoronly, it opens up in portuguese.v:lang?:echo v:lang.:help v:langtells me it should be inherited from the OS (Windows in your case), or set explicitly by the user with the:languagecommand ... But that won't help you, since the tutor file has already been loaded in the wrong language...