On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 12:48 PM John Little <[email protected]> wrote: > > :help :check<Tab> (with 'wildmenu' on) or :help :check<Ctrl-D> would > > have shown you all helptags beginning with :check > > How would I have known to do that, when I did not know that there might be > another command starting with "check"? I use the help when I don't know > stuff, that's the point of it. > > Regards, John Little
Well, I suppose it's a question of how we relate to encyclopaedic sources of information. When I was a little kid, I would spend hours with the 7-volume dictionary (7 thick folio volumes IIRC); nowadays I can spend hours going from subject to subject by following hotlinks in the Wikipedia — or in the Vim help; and it proves to me how true was the remark of Socrates: «The more I know, and the more I'm conscious of how little I know». How would you have known, when you didn't know there was another comand starting with :check? Well, seeing that the help didn't jibe with what you saw, you might have wondered if there weren't another command starting with :check, and asked for a list — if you had known how to; though the <Tab> key is used for more than one kind of completion, and it is very useful. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAJkCKXsj-9xmssmp-grApFQmmD5gLYUGPy_C0_jUuj-ttpPsnQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
