Monday, September 14, 2015

Re: How to use :help?

* Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> [2015-09-13 15:01 +0200]:

> Hi Niels!
>
> On So, 13 Sep 2015, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read quite often "just use the help" or recently on the list "don't
> > use google, use :help". But how do I "use" it? When I want to know if
> > something is possible in vim, I never figured out how to search for it
> > because I always got the feeling that I need at least to know what
> > something is called to be able to find it in the first place in the
> > help.
>
> If you know what you are looking for, it is usually easier to search for
> it using the help system. Because the subjects follow a certain style
> guide.
>
> Also the help has the advantage, of belonging to your particular vim
> version (well, usually), so that obsolete topics or topics that have
> been added later won't turn up.
>
> Therefore, it is essential to learn the help system and the language it
> uses. Here are some examples (not necessarily complete and I might have
> forgotten something).
>
> 1) Options generally are enclosed in single parenthesis. So you would
[...]
> 20) compiled extra features always start with "+" so :h +conceal
> talks about the conceal support

Shouldn't those point be placed on https://vim.wikia.com/ or
https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki ?

Elimar
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