Is it possible to configure vi to use a different location, say my home directory, for the uncompressed help files (or maybe to open them in RO if that's the problem)?
When attempting to open a help document from within vi I get the following error:
"quickref.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 94L, 21071C
Error detected while processing function gzip#read:
line 41:
E484: Can't open file /tmp/vcl6GTZ/7
Press ENTER or type command to continue
Error detected while processing function gzip#read:
line 44:
Error: Could not read uncompressed file
Press ENTER or type command to continue
E434: Can't find tag pattern
Press ENTER or type command to continue
This happens when pressing CTRL+] over quickref from help.txt (:help
):
Instead, the raw, uncompressed help.txt.gz file is opened and displayed:
I was told by the company hosting this server that I don't have access to tmp
(though I can ls
it's contents).
Update (11/15/2019)
After adding $TMPDIR to env with export TMPDIR=~/tmp
I now get the following error (same error, different location). Maybe the underlying issue is with the "tag pattern" not being found, which occurs irrespective of the temp path's location:
"quickref.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 94L, 21071C
Error detected while processing function gzip#read:
line 41:
E484: Can't open file /home1/<username>/tmp/vNQn0ab/3
Press ENTER or type command to continue
Error detected while processing function gzip#read:
line 44:
Error: Could not read uncompressed file
Press ENTER or type command to continue
E434: Can't find tag pattern
Press ENTER or type command to continue