Meghdad Azriel wrote:
I was just kidding ;)
I know that they are not secret but, they´re not that intuitive... and i´m
still learning how to use that help effectivelly...
maybe I neet to read those basic files with care...
[...]
To use the help effectively, one should learn to use the tools Vim itself
includes to search the help (see, among others, ":help :help" and ":help
:helpgrep"):
:help <topic>
brings you to the help for <topic> if there is one, otherwise to some help
topic "resembling" what you typed
:help pattern<Tab>
completes your command-line with the first help topic matching the pattern.
Hit <Tab> again to see the next one. Hit Ctrl-D to see them all. If you have
'wildmenu' on, the bottom status line will be replaced by a "menu" of possible
matches: hit <Left> or <Right> to select, <Enter> to accept, <Esc> to abort.
:helpgrep pattern
searches the whole help text for /pattern/. The results are used to build a
"quickfix error list" (see ":help quickfix.txt"). Then the following commands
may come useful:
:cn[ext]
:cp[revious] or :cN[ext]
:cnf[ile]
:cpf[ile] or :cNf[ile]
:cfir[st] or :cr[ewind]
:cla[st]
to navigate the list, displaying the helpfiles with the cursor on a match;
:cope[n]
to open the list of matching lines in its own split-window, where you can
position the cursor on any of those lines then hit <Return> to see the same
line in context in its helpfile;
:ccl[ose]
to close the quickfix window, even if it is not the current window. (Brackets
represent the optional part of the command names: e.g. ":cp[revious]" means
that the ":cprevious" command can be abbreviated to any of :cp :cpr :cpre
:cprev etc.)
If you often use the ":helpgrep" command and/or other quickfix commands such
as ":make" ":vimgrep" etc., you may find the following mappings handy (replace
the left-hand side by whatever suits you):
:map <F2> :cnext<CR>
:map <S-F2> :cprev<CR>
Best regards,
Tony.
