On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:28:26 PM UTC+13, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-03-15 19:06, John Little wrote: > > If I use an upper-case mark in the help, upon returning to that > > point the help file is not opened in a "help" buffer, but has an > > ordinary file, even though it has file type "help". It looks ok > > but the hypertext linking doesn't work. > > > Is there a way to set "helpness" for a buffer? > > You might look into the 'buftype', 'filetype', and 'syntax' > settings. In a help window, those are all set to "help".
set buftype=help is what is needed, thank you. I searched eval.txt, I should have looked in options.txt. > That said, I don't notice an issue dropping an upper-case mark in the > help, leaving the window, and then using tags upon returning to that > mark. You are not exiting vim altogether, coming back to vim the next day like the OP, leaving the window is not enough to see what I was talking about. Regards, John Little -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
