Re: :help :check inconsistent with :check

John Little wrote:

> I just struck an inconsistency that had me confused.
>
> I was watching a steadily growing log file, and with autoread set, I used the command
>
> :check
>
> and nothing happened (but for a message I didn't understand). So I went to the help and ran
>
> :help :check
>
> and got the help for the command I thought I was running. Eventually I worked out that :check is actually :checkpath, and I should have used :checktime.
>
> But surely ":h :xyz" should give the help for ":xyz", but am I missing something?

The tag of :checkpath is ":che", which is the shortest form. Apparently
for ":help :check" it finds ":checkt" or ":checktime" first.
I'll add a tag for ":check" at ":checkpath", that will fix it.

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