Doug Wyatt: >>> I recently upgraded to Fedora 7 and I've discovered that >>> Vim's built-in help files don't display. Tim: >> Works here, so it sounds like you've got a problem with your system, >> rather than vim, in itself. You might want to try verifying the >> installation (see the rpm man file for verify instructions). Karsten Hopp: > You're probably using /bin/vi instead of /usr/bin/vim. > Starting vim by running 'vi' as root can cause this as the alias vi=vim isn't set for root- Works either way for me, no problems. The only differences I see is the use of colour and inverse video. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.