Jan 14, 2024 · The other answers have already answered your question, but for the sake of completeness: If you just want to temporarily get a larger window for your help-viewing, you can use either or both of the Ctrl-w _ and Ctrl-w | mappings to maximise the help window as much as possible vertically or horizontally, respectively, but without closing your existing split windows.

I've been starting vim with the same session file (i.e. vim -S path/to/session.vim) for a few years. When I start vim without specifying a session file, I can access documentation for these packages. It would be nice to be able to keep my session and still access docs for packages but starting a new session is a usable workaround.

Dec 1, 2022 · We can get help on Vim functions by typing the following from within Vim.:help somecommand For example, the following sends us to the help text for the unmap functionality.::help unmap Is there any way to get Vim help directly in the terminal? If I could put that functionality into a function, called say, vimhelp, I could then run from the ...

Feb 23, 2015 · summary: this one shows a way to find interesting items given a keyword with help of cmdline-completion.-0.2 define a buffer-local key-mapping to invoke vim help of word under cursor, when in previously mentioned vim notes file. (and possibly with post-processing after extract <cword>, in a vimscript function)

Aug 4, 2022 · The help page continues with the :h key-notation which is again a worthwhile read on how keynames are used inside Vims help pages, especially when trying to map keys. I also just sent in a small doc-patch, to make this help-entry more easily discoverable from the …

Apr 12, 2020 · somewhere in :help help and /Jump to speci<CR> Jump to specific subjects by using tags. This can be done in two ways: - Use the "CTRL-]" command while standing on the name of a command or option.

May 25, 2016 · The branch finding option tags (those of the form '...') changed to vim's help option syntax exactly. (That link is fixed to latest commit on master, at the time of this writing, but since it was last changed 17 years ago, it's probably safe for a while.):set nohlsearch changed to :noh, in case you usually have hlsearch on (I do).

Vim's documentation uses tags to provide quick navigation, e.g. :help :s. This makes for a little chicken and egg problem because you might not know the help author choose for tags. Here are some ways to discover help topics: Use tab completion (and wildcards!) e.g. :h buff<tab> to list out buffer related topics

Sep 2, 2024 · The following works for me - opening help docs in vertical split at left - placed in ~/vimfiles/ftplugin/help.vim as suggested in above post: au BufEnter */doc/* wincmd L | wincmd H. However, it appears to me (and my perhaps naïve eye) that the */doc/* part is unnecessary and unhelpful, as it picks up files outside Vim help doc system.

Nov 17, 2020 · For example, you are using "mattn/emmet.vim", and command :help todo, it shows emmet-todo. Not vim side's todo. I'd like to find vim side's todo, but can't go to next match... how can I go to next match?