Hi MacDonald,! On Mi, 15 Feb 2012, MacDonald, Stuart wrote:
> From: On Behalf Of Christian Brabandt > > On Tue, February 14, 2012 14:53, MacDonald, Stuart wrote: > > > ...and how would one find that? ':he ^L' just goes to the :redraw help > > > and the ':he /' section doesn't appear to talk about 'ctrl-l'. > > > > > > The help is implemented with tags, and I've often wondered why ':tn' > > > doesn't do the obvious thing and take you to the next related help > > > topic. In this case cycling through ':redraw', <search's ctrl-l help>, > > > <whatever>, etc. > > > > If you use > > :tag /CTRL-L > > you can then use :tn to jump to all the different matchting tags. > > Yes, when you have a tags file. That does not work in the help system, > which is what I was asking about. On second thought, I suppose my You didn't try it, right? Open the help and enter: :tag /Ctrl-L The third :tn will bring you to :h c_Ctrl-L > actual question is, why doesn't the help contain a pre-built tags > file? On third thought, perhaps because what I'm asking for is more of There is a pre-built tags file for the help. Its $VIMRUNTIME/doc/tags and can be updated with :helptags > an index operation, which is a looser association that a series of > tags is normally. > > Also, ':he /^L' gives 'E149: Sorry, no help...' Don't use the literal ^L but type CTRL-L > My question stands, how would a user find out about ctrl-l within the > / operator? (For the record, this appears to be answered elsethread.) Usually you prepend a letter plus a low dash for the mode, in which you are interested, e.g. 'i_', if you need to find out a key-combination in insert mode (e.g. :h i_CTRL-X_CTRL-F for insert mode completion) or 'c_' for command mode, as in this case and as Andy already told you. And at last, you can always :helpgrep for grepping inside the help files for any search string. regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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
