Re: How can I open help in the current window?

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:30:59 AM UTC-5, Thiago de Arruda wrote:
> On 04/23, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
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> > So you can always open help for subject foobar in the current window
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> > by doing
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> > :view $VIMRUNTIME/doc/help.txt | help foobar
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> This isn't working for me, while the help doc is opened, the topic for "foobar"
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> opens in another window.
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> I have even tried :view '$VIMRUNTIME/doc/help | setf help | help foobar' with no
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> luck, the help topic always open in another window.
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> I'm amazed that something that seems so simple is so difficult to accomplish in
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> the most powerful editor :)

I think the difference is that the :help command looks for a window with the 'buftype' option set to "help". :help 'buftype' says you're not supposed to set that manually, but I don't think there is anything preventing you from doing so. This should work slightly better:

:view $VIMRUNTIME/doc/help.txt | set buftype=help | help foobar

It seems to work for me, anyway. I'd set up a command to do all this for you rather than typing it all every time, though.

Or just use :tab help.

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