How to use :help?

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.

For example digraphs. I didn't know that this function exists. I read
about it in "Practical Vim" by Drew Neil (btw best vim-book out there
imho) and then I could use ":help digraphs" to find the characters I
need. But before that I relied on copy and paste from character tables
and stuff like that. How could I have found out about digraphs with the
help-function without knowing that they exist? ":help special
characters" doesn't find anything, also ":help insert special
characters". And this is just one example. Other examples would include
the .-command, gq to break lines anew to fit the set character width, or
showcmd (:h show command or :h showcommand won't find anything, only :h
showcmd). But there is certainly more.

Niels

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