On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > And finally, don't hesitate to use the help. When, in one of the posts in > this mailing list, you come across a command, an option, etc., which is > obscure to you, go find its help. The Vim help is infinitely better than what > most other programs try to pass off as "help" and often is hardly more than > an advertising pamphlet by comparison: with Vim, *everything* is covered in > the help. So much so that the newbie sometimes faces a sort of > needle-and-haystack problem; however, even against that problem there is help > -- when I started using Vim it was in several places, but now most of the > "help about help" has been brought together in one place, namely the helpfile > helphelp.txt. So by typing > > :help helphelp.txt > > in a running Vim, you will be brought to "help about using help", which IMO > is the most important thing to master in order to become a proficient Vim > user.
Wow! Even help for help. Cool. I'd gotten the sense already that Vim's help was really good. But help for help. Pretty cool. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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
