Re: How open help in the current window?

On 2013-05-24 07:56, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > When I open help by ":help", it will add a new window for help. Is
> > there a way to replace the current window with help? Thanks.
>
> :help
> :only

This has unfortunate side-effects if you have multiple windows open.
Yukihiro's solution using ":set buftype=help" is the closest I've seen
to solving the OP's request (despite the warning in the help for
'buftype' that tells you it shouldn't need to be set manually) though
if the buffer has been modified, vim will warn you rather than losing
your changes. There doesn't seem to be a ":help!" (well, there is,
but it doesn't abandon changes in the buftype=help window; rather it
attempts to console you in your panic :-)

-tim

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