> And finally, don't hesitate to use the help. When, in one of the posts in this mailing list, you come across a command, an option, etc., which is obscure to you, go find its help. The Vim help is infinitely better than what most other programs try to pass off as "help" and often is hardly more than an advertising pamphlet by comparison: with Vim, *everything* is covered in the help. So much so that the newbie sometimes faces a sort of needle-and-haystack problem; however, even against that problem there is help -- when I started using Vim it was in several places, but now most of the "help about help" has been brought together in one place, namely the helpfile helphelp.txt. So by typing
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> :help helphelp.txt
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> in a running Vim, you will be brought to "help about using help", which IMO is the most important thing to master in order to become a proficient Vim user.
Wow! Even help for help. Cool. I'd gotten the sense already that Vim's help was really good. But help for help. Pretty cool.
Thanks,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net
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