Question

I’m afraid asking this silly question but google looks like has no answer for this.

Every time I run VIM in terminal it automatically opens “help.txt” file with sp(split screen) mode.
It says “help.txt” “help.txt” [readonly] 217L, 8055C
Does anybody knows how to fix this problem?

Answer 1

Try running:

vim -u NONE

If this help file doesn’t appear when doing that, then there’s something in a vimrc file somewhere that is opening the help. Check in:

~/.vimrc
/usr/share/vim/vimrc
/etc/vimrc

…and anywhere else you might find a vimrc file on your system.