Originally posted by: Dave_A

Using the vim-8.0-3 packages, the help files are not compressed so vim can't find them.  Running ":help help" within vim yields this:

E429: File "/opt/freeware/share/vim/vim80/doc/helphelp.txt.gz" does not exist

The "tags" file in that same directory defines the file names for each help topic and it has all the files with a .gz suffix, except for help.txt.  Either all the .txt files (except help.txt) should be compressed or the tags file should be changed.  Preferably the former.

Originally posted by: sangameshm

Looks like documentation help tags refresh is required.

In tags files "/opt/freeware/share/vim/vim80/doc/tags" we are specifying the .gz but not shipping any .gz files.

So to recreate helptags for the current .txt file which we are shipping, please run the below command.

vim -c ":helptags /opt/freeware/share/vim/vim80/doc" -c :q

This commands changes the help tags in tags file to the files we are shipping.

So, we need to change the tags file according to the files we are shipping.

We will be rebuilding vim to have this change and mostly to have .gz files.

In the meanwhile, please use the above mentioned command to refresh the help tags.

Originally posted by: AyappanP

The issue is fixed in latest vim release 8.0-4.

ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/vim/