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Vim doesn't show plugin documentation

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Mar 15, 20261769 views
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Problem

When I put a symbolic link to a .txt documentation plugin, vim doesn't show me the help Example: I have in ~/.vim/doc in vim: This command doesn't show the documentation.

Error Output

$ ls -al NERD_tree.txt 
 NERD_tree.txt -> PATH/nerdtree/doc/NERD_tree.txt

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Fix for: Vim doesn't show plugin documentation

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Vim needs to know when the help files are updated, so it can know where the tag should point. Running the following in vim should fix it:

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