- Vim Tutorial
- Vim - Home
- Vim - Introduction
- Vim - Installation & Configuration
- Vim - It’s friends
- Vim - Getting familiar
- Vim - Getting help
- Vim - Editing
- Vim - Navigating
- Vim - Revisiting Editing
- Vim - Searching
- Vim - Working With Multiple Things
- Vim - Markers
- Vim - Macros
- Vim - Registers
- Vim - Folding
- Vim - Diff
- Vim - Plug-ins
- Vim - Using Vim as IDE
- Vim - Remote File Editing
- Vim - Tips & Tricks
- Vim - Personalization
- Vim - Conclusion
- Vim Useful Resources
- Vim - Quick Guide
- Vim - Useful Resources
- Vim - Discussion
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 online 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 online help
Vim also provides online help. To access online help −