Steve Hall wrote:
From: Mikolaj Machowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, May 19, 2006 2:44 PM
Dnia pi?tek, 19 maja 2006 19:07, Meino Christian Cramer napisa?:
IMHO the help files are only for those, who are know already, what
they are searching for. A newbie gets hopelessly lost.
Not exactly. Newbie has to read whole Users Manual from the
beginning to the end. There is no way to jump directly to usr_41 and
understand everything.
I have never found the User's Manual to be very helpful in learning to
write scripts. (Perhaps that's why it is called the "User's Manual". :)
My personal experience was starting with just these two pages:
:help options.txt
:help eval.txt
A couple of miles of scripts later, I still find these answer 90% of
what I need, or link directly to it.
the two largest, excluding those which merely list changes between
versions. Not easy to read from A to Z at one setting. I agree with you
though.
The problem is finding the answers to the other 10%, but that's where
:help <pattern><Tab>, :helpgrep, vim-online and @vim.org come into plaéy.
Best regards,
Tony.
