September 4, 2024

Vim - help

Vim has built in help, and some believe that it is one of the best resources for learning about vim.

The following website extracts all the help from the Vim sources and makes it available in html form:

To use the built-in help, launch vim and type: 

:help
One you get done reading whatever it is you are reading, ":q" will exit the help display.

To get help on a specific topic do something like: 

:help c

g, q, and z

Each of these is "overloaded" in normal mode with a host of hidden commands.
:help g (or q or z) will get you started.
Try q: or q/

Have any comments? Questions? Drop me a line!

Tom's vim pages / tom@mmto.org