In Vim, if you type :help
into the status bar, you get a window with this (contents truncated to the relevant bits):
*help.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2012 Dec 06
VIM - main help file
...
USER MANUAL: These files explain how to accomplish an editing task.
Jump to a subject: Position the cursor on a tag (e.g. |bars|) and hit CTRL-].
|usr_toc.txt| Table Of Contents
Getting Started ~
|usr_01.txt| About the manuals
|usr_02.txt| The first steps in Vim
|usr_03.txt| Moving around
|usr_04.txt| Making small changes
|usr_05.txt| Set your settings
|usr_06.txt| Using syntax highlighting
|usr_07.txt| Editing more than one file
|usr_08.txt| Splitting windows
|usr_09.txt| Using the GUI
Say I want to see more information about this item |usr_07.txt|
, what command do I type?
I tried this:
Jump to a subject: Position the cursor on a tag (e.g. |bars|) and hit CTRL-].
But my terminal window has mapped ctrl -
to "decrease text".
Best Answer
You can use
to access a specific file. Usually more usefully you can jump to a particular topic:
This last notes that you can also use Ctrl-Click with the mouse, and double-click works too.
You can also use
g]
to access tagselect, which offers a list that you can select from with just numbers and Enter. In many cases that will be a list of one item, but it still avoids using Ctrl-] at any point.Some other commands you could use to follow these links are also listed in
:help tagsrch.txt
.