On Friday, March 30, 2012 2:24:48 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote: > > This is one of my biggest bug bears and it drives me absolutely nuts: > > > > Is there a way to prevent :help from splitting the window?! > > I never, ever want a horizontal split. I'd just like to see the help > > text in a new tab. > > > > > > I mostly use gvim, sometimes vim. So I need a solution that works in > > both cases. > > :tab help topic
I always use that method to read help pages. In fact I have added an abbreviation in my .vimrc for it: cabbrev help tab help Now whenever you start typing :help on the commandline and press the spacebar the enter the subject, it will automatically expand to 'tab help'. Jeroen -- 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
