On 14-Sep-09 14:40, Spencer Collyer wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 09:08:15 +0100, Spencer Collyer wrote: >> In the help for the 'help' command it states the following: >> >> -----8<--------8<--------------------8<--------8<--------------------8<------- >> :h[elp] Open a window and display the help file in >> read-only mode. If there is a help window open already, use >> that one. Otherwise, if the current window >> uses the full width of the screen or is at least 80 characters >> wide, the help window will appear just above >> the current window. Otherwise the new window is put at >> the very top. >> -----8<--------8<--------------------8<--------8<--------------------8<------- >> >> However, I have the 'splitbelow' option set and my help windows always >> open below the current window. This is consistent with the help for >> 'splitbelow' but not for the help for 'help'. Is this a bug in the >> help or the behaviour of 'help' when splitbelow is set? > > Hate to reply to my own message, so this is just a ping to see if anyone has > an opinion as to whether this is a documentation or implementation bug?
IMHO, neither. The help just states the default, i.e. 'nosplitbelow' case. It goes without mentioning that 'splitbelow' also applies to the help window (which is just an ordinary window hosting a special buffer type). Remember, this is a help (as in helpful) document, not a watertight spec. Does the behavior bother you? -- regards, ingo -- -- Ingo Karkat -- /^-- /^-- /^-- /^-- /^-- /^-- http://ingo-karkat.de/ -- -- http://vim.sourceforge.net/account/profile.php?user_id=9713 -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
