On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-03-29 15:26, Peng Yu wrote: >> > > When I ":help shiftwidth", I get to eval.txt. But I'd like to >> > > get to options.txt. How to do so? Thanks. >> > >> > :help 'shiftwidth' >> >> What is the difference between with the single quote and without >> the single quote? Where is this difference documented? > > By convention, Vim's settings are targeted in the help by putting > single-quotes around them. If they're unique, you can find them in > the help without the quotes, as Vim does a best-guess matching for > substrings. Thus if you do something like > > :help formatexpr > > it will take you to the same place as > > :help 'formatexpr' > > However, as you discovered, if you leave off the single-quotes and > some other target is found, it will take you there instead. E.g. > > :help 'list' " takes you to the help on the 'list' setting > vs > :help list " takes you to the help on ":list" > > So generally, if you want to find an option/setting, make sure to > include the single-quote. The conventions are listed at > > :help help-context > > which is visible right from the first page of just typing > > :help > > You can also hit control+D to have Vim show you the potential matches > such as > > :help list<C-D>
Is there a way to somehow print the potential matches in the command to stdout. I am able to get vim print some arbitrary text. But I can not get the above printed to the command line. vim -T dumb -c echo\ \"Hello\ World\!\" -c q > which shows that there are Ex commands, settings, functions, > build-time options, variables, and data-types all containing the > search-term "list". > > -tim > > -- Regards, Peng -- -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
