Vim Tutorial
Vim Useful Resources
Selected Reading
- Vim - Conclusion
- Vim - Personalization
- Vim - Tips & Tricks
- Vim - Remote File Editing
- Vim - Using Vim as IDE
- Vim - Plug-ins
- Vim - Diff
- Vim - Folding
- Vim - Registers
- Vim - Macros
- Vim - Markers
- Vim - Working With Multiple Things
- Vim - Searching
- Vim - Revisiting Editing
- Vim - Navigating
- Vim - Editing
- Vim - Getting help
- Vim - Getting familiar
- Vim - It’s friends
- Vim - Installation & Configuration
- Vim - Introduction
- Vim - Home
Vim Useful Resources
Selected Reading
- Who is Who
- Computer Glossary
- HR Interview Questions
- Effective Resume Writing
- Questions and Answers
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
Vim - Getting help
Vim - Getting Help
Vim is feature rich editor hence remembering everything about it will be difficult. But there is no need to worry, we can always ask for help. Fortunately this help is provided by Vim itself.
In this chapter, we will discuss following items −
Access help manual
Help on specific topic
Search help phrase in manual
Access onpne help
Access help manual
Help manual is shipped with Vim editor itself and it is really comprehensive. To access help execute below command −
:help
Help on specific topic
Help manual will show entire help about Vim. But what if, we are only interested in certain topic. Vim provides command for that as well with following syntax
:help <topic-name>
In above command replace <topic-name> with topic in which you are interested. Forinstance to access help about vim mode, execute following command
:help modes
Search help phrase in manual
You can search specific topic only if you know its name. But what if, you don’t know the exact name of help topic. In that case you can use below command −
:helpgrep <phrase>
For instance, to access help about navigation in Vim execute below command
:helpgrep navigation
Access onpne help
Vim also provides onpne help. To access onpne help −
Visit URL
Additionally you can also refer documentation