Questions tagged [help-system]

Question 1

If I use command like :echo something I get the output in a buffer just under the status line. For example if I do let g:seed = srand() :echo range(10)->map({-> rand(g:seed)})->join("\n&...

Question 2

I was writing a very simple autoload function in my vimrc related to window layout stuff. Unavoidably, I used both :help and AI chatbot when I need some hints about what are the features available to ...

Question 3

Commands :k and :mark have the following notation in Vim help: :[range]ma[rk] {a-zA-Z'} :[range]k{a-zA-Z'} What does the ' symbol stand for? Does this mean that it's a reference to the marks and not ...

Question 4

I am writing a help doc. How can I format it automatically, so that lines will wrap and be in the correct columns? For example, if I were editing the :help E199 section, CLOSE ...

Question 5

There seems to be a few posts about this, e.g.: Opening Vim help in a vertical split window. The following works for me - opening help docs in vertical split at left - placed in ~/vimfiles/ftplugin/...

Question 6

Suddenly, it seems that I have no syntax in my help files. I do have help in Neovim\share\nvim\runtime\syntax , and &ft is help. Not sure how to debug it.

Question 7

When I use :ls in Vim, I can see the list of open buffers. But when I open a buffer for documentation, for example :h help, I cannot see an entry for it in the :ls list, even if I open it by :tab h ...

Question 8

I'm new at writing / editing vimhelp doc/plugin.txt files. I've seen backquotes used as a form of quoting literal commands, mappings etc like in Markdown (though :h help-writing seems to imply this ...

Question 9

How can I search the help entry for the last errors after the execution? Example " try to run a command that doesn't exist :qwerty E492: Not an editor command: qwerty I usually use :echo errmsg, ...

Question 10

Is there a possibility to make vim helpfiles from pers POD? I know there is pod2text, pod2html, ... Is there somting like pod2vim too? EDIT: Example =pod =head1 Headline 1 abc =head1 Headline 2 ...

Question 11

This is a question about using the help docs. I find Vim's documentation really easy to navigate, I've done it a lot, and there was the user manual to explain the system. But I find neovim's ...

Question 12

I have a Swiss keyboard where the ']' is created with the CTRL-ALT-5 key combination. I remapped it to the 'à' character as so: keymap.set({"n", "o", "x"}, "à", ...

Question 13

While going through the vimtutor, I was supposed to execute commands to access help. Executing :help worked, but once I executed :help w, :help user-manual the output became gibberish. The error code ...

Question 14

Within the quickref.txt (which can be reached by typing in :tab help quickref) I can see plainly texts, pages after pages, that look like: h N h left (also: CTRL-H, <BS>, or &...

Question 15

I think there is an option that governs this behavior, but I cannot find it.

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Questions tagged [help-system]

What is the name of the "echo" buffer?

How do I know when a feature was added to Vim?

What does ' mean in the :mark command notation?

How can I format help docs?

Open Vim help in vertical split

No syntax in help files (how to debug?)

Why does the :ls command not display :help buffers?

vimhelp formatting: escaping backticks within inline backquoted fragments

Go to error messages' `:help`

Making helpfiles from perls POD

How to look up neovim command for existing Vim command?

Unable to jump to a subject in the help file in macOS X

Vim help outputs gibberish

Search for all hotkeys starting with "g" in Vim's "quickref.txt"

How can I stop Vim from quitting when the last buffer is a `:help` buffer?

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