From: On Behalf Of Christian Brabandt > On Mi, 15 Feb 2012, MacDonald, Stuart wrote: > > 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:
Wrong. I came >< that close to replying to your original suggestion with the same "didn't try it, right?" but figured I'd rather be sure. So I tried several combinations, none of which worked... > :tag /Ctrl-L > The third :tn will bring you to :h c_Ctrl-L ...except I didn't try the one combination that does work: typing what you said literally. ':tag /^L' doesn't work for instance. So yes, your suggestion works but it uses the :tag command in a way I've never used it before. > There is a pre-built tags file for the help. Its $VIMRUNTIME/doc/tags > and can be updated with :helptags Nifty! Thanks. > 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. Also didn't know about :helpgrep. Thanks! ...Stu -- 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
