Re: :help WITHOUT split screen

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On 30/03/2012 13:39, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 13:51, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
> <vim@numerixtechnology.de> wrote:
>> This is one of my biggest bug bears and it drives me absolutely nuts:
>>
>> Is there a way to prevent :help from splitting the window?!
>> I never, ever want a horizontal split. I'd just like to see the help
>> text in a new tab.
>
> Same here
>
>>
>>
>> I mostly use gvim, sometimes vim. So I need a solution that works in
>> both cases.
>>
>
> I have this command abbreviation:
>
> " h open help in new tab
> cabbrev h tab help
>
> So whenever I ask help with ':h' it just opens a new tab with it.

Maybe it's just me but if I type:

`:tab help topic` that works but the above abbreviation doesn't do anything.

Vim 7.2.445 huge with GTK2 GUI & the same console version on Debian
Squeeze + Vim 7.3.462 huge no GUI & MacVim 7.3.353 huge with MacVim GUI
on OS X.

Cheers,

Phil...

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